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Letter from a steward about grain prices, wine sales and a man on the estate TM 21527unbekannt

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Business letter from an estate steward to his employer reporting on grain prices and the sale of wine jars, and warning that a man found on the estate is about to run away. The beginning is lost.

In English machine translation

[recto] [… lines lost …] […] the artaba of […] is sold for 86 drachmas; I found it at 60 drachmas the artaba. And as you instructed me about the price of the wine, namely: "Sell 1 jar for 9 drachmas", just now not a single person has bought. But I have given up to the harvest season 75 jars in number, at 1,000 drachmas per hundred, as you said. If you wish to send for the man who was found on the estate, send, since he is expecting to flee. I pray for your health. [verso] […] from […] the steward (phrontistes).

A phrontistes was the manager or agent of a private estate. The figures for wine sales (9 drachmas per jar, 1,000 drachmas per hundred jars) suggest the steward could not get the instructed price.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oslo.2.63

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]ἀρτάβη τοῦ χ[…]ρ…ρ[…]πωλεῖται δραχμῶν πϛ, εὗρον ὡς τῆς ἀρτάβης δραχμῶν ξ. καὶ καθὼς ἐπέθου μοι περὶ τῆς τιμῆς τοῦ οἴνου ὅτι· ἠπώλησον ἐκ δραχμῶν θ κεράμιον α, ὡς ἄρτι οὐδὲ εἷς ἠγόρασεν. δέδωκα δὲ ἕως τῆς θερείας κεράμια ἀριθμῷ οε ὡς τῶν ἑκατὸν δραχμῶν χι…