Letter [December 20, 156 AD]Statilius Maximus, epistrategos of the HeptanomiaAPIScolumbia.apis.p294(NNC)aaa1218p.col.10.2610094;10;261p.col;10;2612226222262Col.inv. 438Letter to the strategos Athenodoros ruling that 3 pastophoroi who were appointed in addition to those in charge of the security of a temple had to receive the same benefitsWritten along the fibers; the back is blank5 lines of writing in a small, ligatured hand; the ink is fadedThe text provides the name of an unknown strategosThe identification of Statilius Maximus with an early-second-century idios logos is unlikelyDated on the basis of the identification of Statilius Maximus, although palaeographical considerations might suggest an earlier dateIn Greek1papyrus ; 10.9 x 12.4 cm156 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from Ishmail Abdallah el Shaer in Cairo through H.I. Bell on December 14, 1926; no. 87 in Bell
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishIn GreekAthenodoros, -- strategos of the Oxyrhynchiteappointment and control over temple personnel; financial support of pastophoroiPapyriPapyri
Statilius Maximus to Athenodoros, strategos of the Oxyrhynchite nome, greetings. If, as you write, on the basis of a ruling given by his Excellency the prefect another three pastophoroi have been appointed in addition to those in charge of the security of the temple, then these also, like their colleagues, are entitled to receive (a share of) the police-tax. I pray for your good health. Year 20, Hadrianos 24.
P.Col. X 261 Plate 14 in P.Col. X; published by J.-J. Aubert, BASP 28 (1991) 101-20; on the date see BL XI p. 65.P.Col.:10:261