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A letter addressed to Apollos, village headman, probably of Aphrodito, reporting that the high official Demosthenes has come to Mounkrekis about the grain levy and that the official Menas has had to go down to the harbours. The writer urgently asks that someone be sent before daybreak to Cheilio.
The embole was the compulsory grain shipment to the state, and the protokometes was the chief official of a village. The end of the request is damaged, so exactly what was to be sent, possibly involving a spatharios, is uncertain.
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] † ἐπειδὴ ὁ ἐνδοξότατος Δημοσθένης κατέλαβεν Μουνκρῆκιν διὰ τὴν ἐμβολὴν καὶ πολλὴ ἔπειξις γέγονεν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἠναγκάσθη ὁ λαμπρότατος κύριος Μηνᾶς κατελθεῖν εἰς τοὺς ὅρμους, ἐν Εὐφροσύνῳ εἰμι ταύτην τὴν ἐπιστολὴν γράψας αἰτῶν ὑμᾶς πρὸ διαφαύματος πέμψαι ἕως Χειλιὼ παρὰ τοὺς …
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