Letter to a former strategos of Perithebas about letters and a shipment of food TM 18533Peri Thebas6. Juli 57

[r, centre] [… 1 line lost …] […] provide the things that exist […] we have finished the inspection. We sent you, through the sword-bearer Daphnos, who has […]nion and letters, and through another sword-bearer, Hermon, to the temple of Leto, one letter. So do not neglect anything. As for the dates, we found no old ones either in the Diospolite or in the Ombite nome. But the new ones have come to hand. For I am persuaded that, in so much as Ptolemaios has sent for them, he will be bold enough (?) to bring 2 artabas of loaves and a half-jar of young pigeons and a jar of pickled fish and a single sea-bream; in the jar, in number 40, total 40; in the half-jar, pigeons in number 35, and one sea-bream in a little basket. [r, margin] And take care of yourself so that you stay well. I urge you, then, carefully to […] and towards Ptolemaios. Year 3 of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator, Epeiph 12. [verso, centre] [To …], former strategos of Perithebas [verso, upper margin] […]one