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End of a fragmentary Byzantine letter from the Hermopolite nome addressed to a high official styled 'your Magnificence'. It mentions provisions in barley and chaff for the current year and expresses the writers' loyalty to the most God-beloved emperors.
The plural 'emperors' and the title 'your Magnificence' suggest a Byzantine date, but no date is recorded. The word partly preserved before 'nor concerning' is lost and its meaning 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.
[… ? lines lost …] [… 9 lines lost …] […]σὺν τροφαῖς ἔν τε κριθῇ καὶ ἀχύρῳ τὸν παρόντα ἐνιαυτόν ἵνα μηδὲν λάθῃ τὴν μεγαλειότητά σου μήτε περὶ τῆς[…]ονείας μήτε περὶ ὧν πρὸς καθοσίωσιν τῶν θεοφιλεστάτων ἡμῶν βασιλέων […]ποι…αρ[…] γράμματα προαιρούμεθα.
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