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A private business letter from Ptollarion to his estate manager Kronion at Tebtynis in the 2nd century AD. He gives instructions about lending animals to farmers, carrying chaff, the granary key, and supplying bread and beer for a sheep-shearing planned for the 10th.
Kronion is called phrontistes, an estate manager or steward. The verb rendered 'unless it has rained' literally means 'unless it bedews', and 'the fleeces' is a partly lost word, so both renderings 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 Ptollarion a Kronion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Πτολλαρίων Κρονίωνι χαίρειν. τέσσαρα κτήνη, ἐὰν μὴ δροσίσῃ, τοῖς γεωργοῖς τοῦ Σύρου παράσχου, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἀχυρηγείτω. εἰ οἱ θησαυροφύλακες τὴν κλεῖδα οὐκ ἀποδεδώκασι, ἔασον ἕως ἄν κατέλθω· καὶ ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰς τρίτην κατέρχομαι. πέντε ἀρτάβας ἄρτων ποίησον φέρεσθαι εἰς τὰ μαλλο ……
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