Draft letter to Eukles on grain accounts, rebates to farmers and Syrian slaves TM 1800Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)244 BCE

⟦Apollonios to Eukles, greetings. I have sent you⟧ ⟦the grain⟧ To Eukles. Having drawn up the grain account of the lease of year 3 on the basis of the rebate (kouphismos) according to the review held in Memphis, we find ⟦54⟧ … artabas of wheat overmeasured ⟦5⟧ ⟦and likewise also in the individual account⟧ … 434 and the remainder of the price of the … being at the bank … of the price of the 2 … measured, in all 500 drachmas of bronze ⟦of the⟧ and likewise also in the individual account the same is truly the case. For Aristandros, who formerly owed 750 (artabas) of wheat according to the survey, now overmeasures by 600 ⟦500⟧ artabas on the basis of the rebate. Therefore please, above all, send Herakleides the farmer, if he has time, but if not, let him instruct Herakleides the sitologos, or let him send Chairigenes, so that, if it is possible, he may obtain a release from … to make the individual settlement of accounts for us, so that not ⟦the and …⟧ the (amount) from the farmers […][the] overmeasured (amount) they may give in produce of year 2, acceptable. If the account is drawn up still giving differences, it is troublesome. For I have not met with these sacred scribes nor with Alexander's people. For above all the grain accounts ought to have been drawn up there with you, so that if you judge anything better, we may do so. But as for the Syrian slaves whom you record in the account of the bodies, some as being in the vineyard work and others in agriculture, I do not think you are unaware that they have been led away […] […]