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Fragmentary business letter from Oxyrhynchus, 2nd century AD, asking the recipient to obtain a letter to a certain Dionysios so that hay (or fodder) can be handed over, with a note on current prices. The writer also asks for a jar of fish sauce to be brought, perhaps by Sosos.
Garum was a fermented fish sauce; "Tymolitic" is an obscure descriptive term, perhaps a place or type of jar. The phrasing about who hands over the hay is somewhat confused in the Greek.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business 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 …] …[…]καλῶς ποιήσεις λαβὼν γράμματα παρʼ αὐτοῦ πρὸς Διονύσιον περὶ τοῦ παραδοθῆναι ἡμῖν αὐτά. ἦν μὲν οὖν διὰ θέρους εὐωνότατον· ἐν δὲ τῷ παρόντι ἡ λυσιτελοῦσα καὶ δικαία τιμὴ πρὸς τέσσαρας μνᾶς ἐστιν πενταρταβιαίῳ …[…]ίῳ σακτῷ. πέμψεις οὖν ἡμῖν ἐπιστόλιον πρὸς αὐ…
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