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A short letter of recommendation from Dioskoros, an overseer of the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Heras, asking him to assist Herakleios, who has gone to Herakleopolis to deal with a debtor. Dioskoros offers to return the favour in his own district.
"Epoptes" (overseer, inspector) was a fiscal or administrative official; "the city of Herakles" refers to Herakleopolis. The appeal to "divine providence" suggests a Late Antique, probably Christian, date, though no date is recorded.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dioscorus to Heras). 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 Ἡρᾷ Διόσκορος. Ἡράκλειος ὁ ἡμέτερος πρὸς τὴν σὴν εὐγένειαν εἰς τὴν Ἡρακλέους ἀπήντησεν. τούτῳ οὖν ἀξιῶ τὴν σὴν εὐγένειαν συνάρασθαι. χρεώστου γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν ἀπήντησεν εἰς τὴν Ἡρακλέους. ἀλλὰ μὴ παρίδῃς μου τὴν ἀξίωσιν, ἄδελφε. καὶ αὐτὸς οὖν κέλευέ μοι περὶ …
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