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A letter to Athenodoros, the dioiketes (financial administrator), from an unnamed official reporting that he has settled accounts with two men owing wheat arrears (7 and 21 artabas) and the village scribe, and is holding them in custody. He asks for two armed guards to escort them to Athenodoros. Written in year 21 of Augustus (10/9 BC) in the Herakleopolite nome.
Machairophoroi ("sword-bearers") were armed guards used by officials for police and escort duties. The verb sesympsephika means roughly "I have checked the accounts with".
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] [… ? lines lost …] […]Ἀθηνδώρωι[…] πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν· Φίλιππον Ἐκκράτου παραγραφόμενον ἐν τῷ λογιστηρίῳ ἐκ τοῦ ἀρχαίου λόγου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ζ καὶ Διονῦν Πρωτάρχου πυροῦ ἀρτάβας κα καὶ τὸν κωμογραμματέα τοῦ ἔτους σεσυμψάφηκα καὶ ἔχω αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ· ἐ…
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