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Fragment of a private or business letter about moving a consignment of grain to a place called Pela. The writer asks the recipient for instructions on how to transport it and complains of having waited three days without Apollinarios sending him something.
Pela is probably a village name; its location is not given in the records.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of 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.
[… ? lines lost …] ναι πάντα τὰ …[…] τὴν πρόφασιν ἔχουσιν. εἰ οἶδας ὅτι θέλεις μετενέγκαι τὸν σῖτον εἰς Πελα, γράψον πῶς μέλλομεν αὐτὸν μετενέγκαι. τρεῖς ἡμέρας σήμερον ὧδε κάθημαι καὶ Ἀπολλινάριος οὐκ ἔπεμψέ μοι …[…]…νη μετὰ τὸ γενέσθαι με ἐκεῖ […]πλην ὅμως τὴν χα[…] [… ? lines …
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