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A letter from the strategos Dioskourides to Hermias, whom he addresses as his son, urging him to release the boats and load them with grain before the expected visit of the katholikos, a high financial official. People from the village of Paomis had reported that Hermias held the grain.
The katholikos was the chief financial official of Egypt in the early 4th century; his visit made idle grain boats a source of trouble for local officials. "Son" is likely a courtesy form of address rather than literal kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Strategen Dioskurides). 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] [… ? lines lost …] ὁ κύριός μου καθολικὸς[…]οἱ ἀπὸ κώμης Παώμεως κατὰ τὰ γραφέντα μοι ὑπὸ Σαρμάτου ἔφησαν, λέγειν ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ἔχων τὸν σῖτον. ἀπόλυσον οὖν τὰ πλοῖα πανταχόθεν, μὴ κινδυνεύσωμεν, καὶ γόμωσον τὰ πλοῖα πρὸ τῆς ἐπιδημίας τοῦ κυρίου μου καθολικοῦ, ὡς προεῖπον, ὡς ε…
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