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Letter from Ioannes to Senouthios, the dioiketes (estate or district administrator), from the Hermopolite nome. Ioannes complains that an accursed bucellarius named Menas was not punished and urgently asks Senouthios to release a fleet of boats at once, promising thanks as for an earlier fleet.
The verb restored as ebaklisate is read by the catalogue as referring to a beating; a bucellarius was an armed retainer in private or official service in late antiquity. The right side of each line is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ioannes a Senouthios dioiketes. Per la bastonatura di un buccellario e per una flotta). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † † τὰ γραφέντα παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας περιβλέπτου […] φιλίας ἐδεξάμην· πλὴν ὄντως […] ἐλυπήθην πάνυ ὅτι οὐκ ἐβακλίσατε τὸν […] ἐπικατάρατον τοῦτον Μηνᾶν τὸν βουκκελλάριον […] ὃς ὑμᾶς ἔχει καὶ τὸν θεοχόλητον στόλον. […] διὰ τὸν θεὸν οὖν ἀπολύσατε εὐθέως τὸν στόλον καὶ […] εὐχαριστ…
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