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A short private letter from Eudaimon to Didymos, a financial administrator (dioiketes), asking him as usual to see to the payment of the arithmetikon for Eudaimon and his wife through a certain Pathebis, offering him half in kind or in cash. It dates to the 1st century AD, from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The arithmetikon was a tax, here apparently reckoned in kotylai (a small liquid measure, perhaps of oil or wine). 'In kind' renders genikos, here contrasted with payment in money.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Eudaimon a Didymos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Εὐδαίμων Διδύμῳ διοικητῇ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις προνοήσας, ὡς εἴωθας, τοῦ ἀριθμητικοῦ ἐμοῦ καὶ τῆς γυναικός μου διὰ Παθήβεως Ὥρου Πεεννώ, κοτύλαι ιδ καὶ ἕξεις τὸ ἥμισυ ἢ γενικῶς ἢ ἀργυρικῶς. ἐὰν τοῦτο ποιήσεις, ἔσῃ μοι μεγάλην χάριτα πεποιηκώς. ἔρρωσο. Μεσορὴ η
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