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A letter-order in which Sinpsansneus at the village of Sephtha instructs his son Leonides in the Oxyrhynchite nome to pay 900 drachmas to Aurelius Herakleides, a poultry-dealer, who had already paid the same sum to the writer, so that the money is transferred without being carried. A personal detail about a shipment of 300 linen items serves as an identifying token.
This is a private money-transfer order resembling a bill of exchange, authenticated by a 'token' only the recipient would know; 'semesta' is an obscure term for some kind of linen article. 'Fellow resident of the same street' renders 'syllaurites', a person from the same lane or quarter.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Σινψανσνεῦς Λεωνίδῃ τῷ υἱῷ πολλὰ χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις μεταβαλόμενος παρὰ σοὶ ἐν Ὀξυρυγχίτῃ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρακλείδῃ υἱῷ Κεφάλωνος ὀρνιθᾶτος συλλαυρίτῃ Λεωνίδου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν ἀργυρίου Σεβαστοῦ νομίσματος δραχμὰς ἐνακοσίας, ἀνθʼ οὗ ἔσχον τὰς ἴσας πλήρης δραχμὰς ἐνακοσίας ἐνθάδε ἐν κ…
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