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Fragment of a private letter, probably of the 3rd century AD, concerning a ban on cutting and removing timber and an insult from the official in charge of the registers. The writer says he has sold all his timber, ending his partnership with the addressee, and asks him to urge the woodcutters to work since their price has been received.
The beginning of the letter is lost and the second line is largely unreadable. The "official in charge of the stemmata" is an office whose exact function (registers, possibly of lineage or property) is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] ἡ μήτηρ ἡ Ταραχ… ριωχαιριτι…ι ἐδέξατο , κεκωλυσμένων τῶν ξύλων κοπῆναι μηδὲ ἐξελθεῖν, εἰδὼς ὅτι ὑβρίσθην ὑπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ τῶν στεμμάτων. ὁ γὰρ Μέλας παρέστακέ μοι τοῦτο, καὶ πρὸ Θέωνος ἔλαβον, καὶ ἀνεδέξαντό με Σαραπάμμων καὶ Ο…ωρίων. γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω, ὅτι πάντα, ὅσα ἔχω, ξυλικὰ…
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