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End of a private or business letter in which the writer reports sending 3 1/2 minas of wool, which workers will deliver, and a leftover strouthion. It is dated Year 4, Tybi 14, corresponding to 5 March 243 BC.
The word strouthion is uncertain here. It can mean an ostrich or ostrich egg, but it can also mean soapwort, a plant used to clean wool, which would suit the context better. The letter belongs to the Zenon archive group of the London papyri, but no place is given in the records..
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] κα…[…] θωσιν ὥσπερ εἶπας φροντιεῖ σου. ἀπέσταλκα δέ σοι καὶ ἐρίων μνᾶς τρεισήμισυ , καθαρὸν δὲ ὅσον ἄν ποτε ἀποβῆι. τοῦτο ἀνοίσουσίν σοι οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι. ἀπέσταλκα δέ σοι καὶ τὸ καταλειφθὲν στρούθειον ἔρρωσο. ἔτους δ, Τῦβι ιδ.
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