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Business letter from Dioskoros to Mnesitheos about the price of oil TM 25938OxyrhynchosMitte I

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A fragmentary business letter from Dioskoros to Mnesitheos concerning the price of oil, money and goods sent, in which Dioskoros asks to be released from some obligation. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the mid-first century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto, centre] Dioskoros to Mnesitheos, the […], [greetings] and good health. You write [that …] […] … the price […] […] I wrote to you about this … […] I urge you to release me […] for in the time many … […] […]. And you write to me […] thus I have sent to him […] … and nothing […] [recto, margin] […] … and they wrote to me […] … money until they come … […] [recto, upper margin] … count (?) […] and not receive (?) […] … the oil […] before you receive the price […] [verso] … […] I have kept (?) him for the sake of a boat (?) […] […] … and you, about whatever you need […] […] of the wife (?) until I arrive […] […] price of oil at the … […] […] 2,504 (?) if the price is not safe. To Mnesitheos […]

The figure 2,504 is written as a numeral (Βφδ) whose unit is lost; the final line is the address to Mnesitheos.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.38.2835

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte I · Oxyrhynchos

[r,ctr] Διόσκορος Μνησιθέῳ τῷ[…] καὶ ὑγιαίνειν. γράφεις[…]ὅτι[…] κατε…ύηκε τὴν τιμὴν[…] σοι ἔγραψα περὶ τούτου …[…]παρακαλῶ ἀπαλλάξαι με α[…] γὰρ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ πολλα…[…] ριστίαν. γράφεις δέ μοι […] οὕτως ἔσταλκα πρὸς αὐτὸν[…] τα…ματα καὶ οὐδὲν[…] [r,m] […]αίως καὶ ἔγραψάν μοι […]… …