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A short letter from Ptolemaios to an estate manager (phrontistes) about bundles of reeds, 30 bundles of old reeds and 22 new ones, to be used for propping up young plants. It dates from the early 1st century AD.
A phrontistes was a manager or steward of a private estate. The reeds were evidently stakes to support newly planted vines or trees, but gaps make the exact instruction uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera ad un phrontistes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πτολεμαῖος […]…γει φροντιστῇ χαίρειν· πολ…[…]…νι …[…]…στη ἐκ ἐτησίου […]παρὰ σοὶ καλάμων παλαιῶν δέσμας τριάκοντα δέσμαι τριάκοντα καὶ τον…[…] νον καινὸν παρὰ σοὶ καλάμων ὡς φὴς ἀριθμῷ κβ εἰς ἀνόρθωσιν νεοφυτίων· ἔρρωσθαί σε[…] εὔχομαι ἔτους α Φαρμοῦθι ιδ
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