Business letter about a grain purchase and a loan of chickling-peas TM 30804OberägyptenIII

A fragmentary business letter concerning a merchant named Philoumenos, a joint purchase of grain in which a woman named Apollonia had first claim but refused the city price, and a loan of half an artaba of chickling-peas for the addressee's farmer in the Arabia district. The writer closes by forwarding an account of Ammonios and a note of Horos. It dates to the 3rd century AD, from Upper Egypt.

In English machine translation

Arakos (here 'chickling-peas') is a leguminous fodder or food crop, probably grass pea. 'Arabia' likely refers to an administrative district rather than the Arabian peninsula.

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.