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[r] … ταυτ[…]…σ…[…]ν φρόντισον ὡς ἕκαστος τῶν παρὰ σοὶ σιτοποιησάμενος πυροῦ ἀρτάβην μίαν ἐν ἑτοίμωι ἔσται αὐτοῖς ὁ ἄρτος, ἵνα δὲ καὶ κριθὴ ὑπάρξηι ἐπιμε…[…]ηγησαι ἔρρωσο ἔτουςκϛ Φαμενὼθ ιη [v] Νεχθύρει.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 306
Letter from Platon to Nechthyris about preparing bread and barley TM 306Pathyris30. März 88 v.Chr.
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A letter, attributed to Platon, instructing Nechthyris to make sure that each of the men with him bakes bread from 1 artaba of wheat so that it is ready, and that barley is also available. It was written at Pathyris in Upper Egypt in 88 BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] these […] see to it that each of those with you, having made bread from 1 artaba of wheat, will have the bread ready for them, and that there is also barley […] […]
Farewell. Year 26, Phamenoth 18.
[verso]
To Nechthyris.
The sender's name Platon comes from the catalogue title, not from the surviving text. He was probably the military commander in the region during the unrest of 88 BC, provisioning troops.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Platon à Nechthyrès). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
