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APIS Translation (English)

(lines 1-25) From Asklepiades. Kallianax one of the officials of the Herakleopolite nome having reported in a petition among other things that Exakon who had been appointed to supervise the admission of men to the body of katoikoi in the nome had wrongly collected upon the land apportioned � 2 drachmas 2 obols, and Archinos who was his secretary 4 drachmas of silver and 500 dr. of copper on every 30 arouras, and Aisopos the oikonomos similarly 300 dr., as we wished to leave nothing uninvestigated, instructions were sent to Exakon and his staff to present themselves for the inquiry concerning this, because of a rumor (?) that Exakon � But Apollophanes the strategos of the Oxyrhynchite and Kynopolite nomes and brother of Exakon arrived and submitted a copy of a petition which he said Exakon had presented to the king's brother, in which he declared that he had not wrongly collected the drachma of silver upon the aroura nor had made any imposition on the men during their admission but had conferred benefits upon them in accordance with the preference of each, and had used the receipts from them for the expenses of the voyages up and down and for the deficit on the gold rejected by the treasure-keepers, which they said was of the district of Phocaia �, although bought in the city at higher prices than those current locally �