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A private business letter from Patron to Laches, probably an estate manager, asking him to send three cheeses, attend to the work and report on its progress, and pay the guard of the Forty-Aroura plot for weeding. It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the first half of the 2nd century AD.
The 'Forty-Aroura' (Tessarakontarouroi) is a named parcel of land; the passage on the wood at Theogonis is illegible.
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 Patron a Laches). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πάτρων Λάχηι τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις αὔριον πέμψας τυρία γ· τὸ ξύλον τὸ ἐν Θεογονιδι με…εν…κλη… τωι· τῶν ἔργων μὴ ἀμέλει· περὶ τῶν ἀπαρτιζομένων ἔργων γράφε μοι ἵνʼ εἰδῶ. τῶι φύλακι τοῦ Τεσσαρακονταρούρων δὸς εἰς τὸν βοτανισμὸν τῶν Ταωτίου δραχμὰς … […]…ε…ει … …εις χό…
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