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A private business letter from Herakleides to Athenodoros, the estate manager (dioiketes), reporting on a visit to Tilothis where the brewers had not yet processed the barley, and asking for instructions. It dates to the reign of Augustus, from the Herakleopolite nome.
Line 3 is partly illegible, so the brewers' condition is uncertain; 'brother' is likely a courtesy form. Here dioiketes probably means a manager of a private estate rather than the state finance minister.
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.
[r] Ἡρακλείδης Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν ὡς εὔχομαι· ἐπορεύθην εἰς Τιλῶθιν· οἱ ζυτοποιοὶ οὐκ ἤλησαν τὴν κριθὴν ἐὰν μὴ ἔκδυσκ…τστε αὐτοὺς τοῦ στατῆρος εἰς τὸν Παῦνι· διὸ ἐὰν φαίνηταί σοι σήμανον· ἴσθι δὲ πεπονηκώς τὴν κριθὴν θυμικῶς· ἐὰν γὰρ λ…
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