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A business letter from Aurelius Sarapion to Ammon, instructing him to load a boat with a total of 196 artabas of produce, about freight charges already paid, and about a steward securing the goods. It also mentions chickling and lentils and a payment of 50 drachmas.
The arithmetic (6 loads plus 178 artabas making 196) depends partly on restored numerals. Arakos (chickling, a vetch-like pulse) has no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Geschäftsbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Αὐρήλιος Σαραπίων Ἄμμων χαίρειν. προσαγορεύω σε καὶ τὴν σύμβιόν σου σὺν τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῆς καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν ἡμῶν […]νῦν οὖν γράφω σοι, κύριέ μου· ἐνβαλοῦ εἰς τὸ πλοῖον γόμους ϛ καὶ ἀρτάβας ἑκατὸν ἑβδομήκοντα ὀκτώ , ὥστε τὸ πᾶν γίνεσθαι ὁμοῦ ἀρτάβας ἑκατὸν ἐνενήκοντα ϛ . καὶ ἐκβίβα…
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