Fragmentary private or business letter from the 2nd century AD concerning settlement of public dues and quantities of wheat owed by or to various persons, including Heras son of Atreus, with a request that the recipient attend to the matter. It closes with greetings from family members, among them Serenos.
In English machine translation
[...] I write to you [...] concerning your good [...] at another time, so that with the [...] to leave in safety with yourself [...], most honoured one, and in this [...] the public dues may be settled. Concerning [...] to Ptolemaios, the one at Talou(?) [...] and to Kallistratos, the one from [...], apart from what he owes me, measure(?) [...] 29 artabas of wheat, as follows: to Heras son of Atreus [...] there are owed to herself(?) Heras son of Atreus [...] of the genuine (assessments?) 5 1/2 1/4 artabas of wheat, 6 choinikes, of the surcharge [...] of Philoxenapolis, genuine [...] and [...] of the surcharge, how much [...]
I ask you therefore, dearest, [that ...] you take thought about this [...] with the same [...] therefore of this [...], the gods permitting, [...] for the voyage upstream [...] the urgent need has been well arranged [...] previously with you [...]
Greet warmly [...] and all those in the house [...] greet you warmly [...] and his wife [and ...] and Serenos.
The beginning is lost and many lines are broken at the left. 'Epiklasmos' was a supplementary levy distributed among taxpayers to cover shortfalls, here contrasted with the 'genuine' (regular) amounts.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.