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A private business letter from Sarapion to Epaphroditos about selling barley. Sarapion complains that Epaphroditos, after instructing him to sell at 6 drachmas 4 obols, changed his mind three days later and asked for a lower price, though others had sold to a brewer at that rate. Written in the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
The price of 6 drachmas 4 obols is presumably per artaba of barley. Several lines in the middle are damaged, so the references to Taurinos and to something 'released' are 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 di Sarapion a Epaphroditos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
…υ…β…ος Σαραπίων Ἐπαφροδίτῳ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψάς μοι διὰ Ἀννέους περὶ τῆς κριθῆς ἐκπιπρασκειν πρὸς δραχμὰς ϛ τετρώβολον, θαυμαστὸν δʼ ὡς μετὰ τρεῖς μόνας ἡμέρας μεταβουλευσάμενος γράφεις ἐλάττονος, καίτοι ἄλλων πωλησάντων τῷ ζυτοποιῷ πρὸς δραχμὰς ϛ τετρώβολον […]ρα του…[…] παρόντος κ…
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