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A short business letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios reporting that he has sent letters to the granary supervisors about barley for the beer concession for the month of Tybi. It was written in the Arsinoite nome in February 213 BC.
The date pairs regnal year 9 with financial (revenue) year 10, a common Ptolemaic double dating. The term zytera refers to the beer monopoly or tax; syntaxis is an official allocation of grain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Metrodor an Apollonios). 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] Μητρόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. τὰς πρὸς τοὺς ἐπακολουθούντας παρʼ ἡμῶν τοῖς θησαυροῖς ἐπιστολὰς περὶ τῆς εἰς τὴν ζυτηρὰν κριθῆς τοῦ Τῦβι πέπομφά σοι. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους θ, ὡς δʼ αἱ πρόσοδοι ἔτους ι Τῦβι δ. [v] ἔτους ι Τῦβι ε, Μητρόδωρος τῆς συντάξεως Ἀπολλωνίωι
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