Letter from Ninnas to Julius Silvanus about negligent slaves and payments TM 30321DiospolisIIIrd/IVth century A.D.

[recto] Ninnas to the most honoured Silvanus, greetings. I wrote you this letter at the harbour. None of your slave boys has given me any of the amounts owed by them that are in your hands, but they have kept me waiting for three days (?). Above all Eutyches, even with insolence, (refusing?) that I should speak to him when he was giving Tourbon 3 artabas of vegetables and 2 artabas of wheat, and Pielis 6 artabas of wheat. And Apollos and Sarapion took his sand (?) on account of a debt. And he declared nothing to me except abusing me and giving me orders. And they did none of the tasks you ordered them, nor did they promise to, since from now on the necessary work is being done, which you will see for yourself when you come, and it will be attested to you. Nemesas brought me today, on an old account, 40 drachmas, and says, 'I will see to the rest.' You will write how I am to send you the rents, unless I cannot send them. For I know what I have suffered this winter. Greet Crispina and Diogena and Sabina and Strongylos. All those in the house greet you, and they have sold the rest of the sweet olives. I pray for your health. Tybi 3. To Hestia 2 artabas of black Bourian olives, and to little Manos 1 1/2 artabas of sweet olives. [verso] To Julius Silvanus at Diospolis, from Ninnas.