Letter to Apollos about papers and a small estate TM 19015Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)c.AD 538-47

[recto] [Chi-Mu-Gamma] […] my unworthiness, not having been deemed worthy of your letters […] my wretched soul, but what was ordered to me […] the most honourable Phoibammon through the […] concerning […] not to be burdened, but later I learned your […] I happened to come to Aphrodite […] you have the whole misfortune […] of brother Phoibammon, and the afflictions which he endured […] such things not as a favour but as a debt and obligation […] may I be deemed worthy of the intercession of your holy prayers, so that I may be rescued from the Almighty (?) […] of the devil […] above all I greet with reverence and embrace heartily your fatherly disposition together with the fathers and brothers with it, and especially your son, the most learned scholastikos Dioskoros, my master. Be so good as to settle the matter of the papers given to you by me concerning the son of Phanachymios, and send me back the same papers, so that I may put them in the same place; for those […] never do anything for anyone except with loss. Nevertheless we have already done our part. Do not hesitate to look after the little estate, since as I see […] never […] and if he does not hold […] more […] you stand by me […] [verso] […] To my master, in all things most illustrious, Apollos […]