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A fragmentary letter from Aphrodisios to Athenodoros, the financial administrator (dioiketes), concerning a large quantity of wine brought to Techtho during the epagomenal days of year 23 of Caesar (Augustus). It mentions Arsinoite jars, allocations to workers, and 40 jars due to the writer and his children.
The dioiketes here is probably an estate or local financial manager rather than the Ptolemaic chief minister. The word read as 'kori' is obscure and may be a unit or kind of vessel.
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] Ἀφροδίσιος Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῷ διοικητῆι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς τυγχάνειν τῶν κατὰ προαίρεσιν ἀγαθῶν· ἐπεὶ πολὺς οἶνος ἐν ταῖς ἐπαγομέναις τοῦ κγ ἔτους Καίσαρος εἰς Τεχθὼ ἐνήνεκται καὶ τὸ παρʼ ἐμοὶ κείμενον τῆς ῥύσεως τοῦ χωρίου ἀγγεῖον …[…]μωι Ἀρσινοιτικῶι κεράμια καὶ κόρι…
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