Letter to Eudoros concerning tax collection, linen, gold and grain shipments TM 21534Oxyrhynchos (?)ca. 370

[recto] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] if you send anything from [...] of yours, and not the two [...] and Thon[...] to one place. Let the one who goes away [...] demand the old wine first of all. I have also written to you many times about the collection of the exthesis, whether it has gone ahead or not. Truly, the pledges are being seized on account of the linen, unless it is paid in full today or tomorrow; for the linen-weavers are being driven out. And concerning Constantinople, you have sent neither the village headmen nor the gold. Know that the workman [...] has made himself ready; and let both his [...] and those who are going to sign with him go up with him and the katastates. Demand from those of [...] the two-thirds share to Pelusium [...] of the one gold piece at the rate of 2,250 myriads of denarii. And concerning the loading of the grain, for the speculator has caused me much trouble, and about the freight charge for the grain, so that I may recover the pledge, and send the receipt for the grain of the ship of Ptoleminos, so that it may be entered in the accounts; for I have written to you many times about this, and you did not even take notice. The goods of the katholikos (?) [...] you have neither sent nor written about; but make haste to send the receipt for the linen [...] and do not neglect it. And I have written to you many times about [...] [...] [verso] [I have written to] you many times about the [...] of Komasios, 1 myriad of denarii [...]eus received the receipt [...] provided the money and [...] being insulted, undertook [...]. Make haste, then, to send [...] 1 myriad [...] the wage (?) of the katastates and [...] of the escort, as an extraordinary payment, and not [...] the collection. To Eudoros, from [...]