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A Greek letter or report to a superior addressed as 'your fatherly lordship', saying that the 'amir' (an Arab official) had sent a groom with orders to collect three horses and two donkeys from the hamlet of the writer's brother Germanos alias Theon. The writer says he cannot disobey and asks the addressee to stay nearby two more days.
The title 'amir' points to the early Arab period in Egypt (7th century AD or later). The end of the letter is damaged and the sense of the last lines is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
† ἀναφέρω τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ πατρικῇ δεσποτείᾳ ὅτι ἀποψὲ ἔγραψέν μοι ὁ εὐκλεέστατος ἀμίρας διὰ τοῦ ἱπποκόμου Ἰβιῶνος Πανεκτυρέως ἵνα πέμψω εἰς τὸ ἐποίκιον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου τοῦ κυρίου Γερμανοῦ τοῦ καὶ λεγομένου Θέωνος καὶ λαβεῖν ἐκεῖ τρία ἱππάρια καὶ δύο γαιδάρια καὶ ἐπιδοῦναι τῷ ἱπποκόμῳ …
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