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A short business letter from Parit to Kollouthos asking him to hand over thirteen sextarii of honey that he holds for Parit to Ammonios, the princeps on the staff of the procurator, and to choose the best quality. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 318.
The princeps was the head of an official's office staff, here attached to the procurator. The syntax of the honey and the jar (keramion) is loose in the Greek, apparently meaning the honey is to be given as a jar.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business 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] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῶι Κολλούθωι Παρῖτ χαίρειν. τοὺς δεκατρεῖς ξέστας τοῦ μέλιτος ὧν ἔχεις μοι, δὸς τῷ ἀδελφῷ ἡμῶν Ἀμμωνίῳ, τῷ πρίγκιπι τοῦ ἐπιτρόπου, κεράμιον. ἀλλαʼ ὅρα μὴ ἀμελήσῃς, κύριε ἄδελφε. εὑρὲ οὖν αὐτῷ κάλλιστον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις. [v] […] κυρίῳ μου ἀδε…
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