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A short Byzantine letter to Flavius Dioskoros, village headman (protokometes) of Aphrodito. The writer, about to leave for Mounkrekis with the most illustrious Menas, reports that he has told a shepherd not to trouble Dioskoros' farmers.
A protokometes was a leading village official. The sender's name, after "From", is not preserved, and "your brotherliness" is a polite form of address.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
[r] παρὰ † τὰ γράμματα τῆς σῆς ἀδελφότητος ἐδεξάμην μέλλων ἐξορμῆσαι καὶ ἀπελθεῖν εἰς Μουνκρῆκιν μετὰ τοῦ λαμπροτάτου κυρίου Μηνᾶ καὶ ἐπέτρεψα τῷ ποιμένι κατὰ τύχην εὑρεθέντι ἐγγὺς μου μὴ ὀχλῆσαι τοῖς γεωργοῖς σου. † [v] † τῷδεσπότῃ μου Φλαυίῳ Διοσκόρῳ πρωτοκωμήτῃ. [… ? lines los…
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