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A private letter from the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd century AD. The writer reports visiting with the chief of police and a village elder to check items due for delivery, notes that 15 artabas of the recipient's barley have been harvested and the rest of the crop from 7 arouras is being reaped, and gently reproaches the recipient for not writing.
The archephodos was a village police chief and the presbyteros a village elder; the beginning of the letter, including the names, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… 2 lines lost …] εμ[…] γματα λη καὶ παραγενάμενος μετὰ τοῦ ἀρχεφόδου καὶ πρεσβυτέρου κατέμαθον αὐτὰ εἰς ἀπόδοσιν. ὅσον οὖν ἐφʼ ἡμῖν ἐστιν εἰσπραχθήσεται, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἀνεσπάσθη σου ἡ κριθὴ ἀρτάβαι ιε, νυνὶ δὲ θερίζεται τὰ ἄλλα τὰ περιγενόμεναἐξ ἑπτα ἀρουρῶν. θαυμάζω οὖν πῶς οὐκ ἔ…
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