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A letter of recommendation from Philotas to Soterichos, a financial administrator, on behalf of the farmer Ptoys, who carries the letter. Philotas asks Soterichos to make those whose goats ate Ptoys' green crop pay him compensation, noting that Ptoys pays the rents of Asklepiades the antigrapheus. Written in the Herakleopolite nome on 14 July 6 BC.
The word 'goats' is supplied by the editor where the scribe omitted it. Dioiketes here is a local financial manager and antigrapheus a 'checking clerk'; neither title has an exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Recommendation). 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] Φιλώτας Σωτηρίχωι τῶι διοικητῇ πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν· Πτῶυς ὁ ἀποδιδούς σοι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἔστιν μου ἡμέτερος καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδου ἀντιγραφέως γεωργός· εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις ἐκπράξας τοὺς ὀφείλοντας αὐτῶι εἰς ἐκφόρια ὧν καταβέβρωκαν αἶγες αὐτοῦ χλωρὸν ἴδιον· καὶ γὰρ κα…
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