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A private or business letter from Didymos to his lord Severus, written in Roman Egypt in the 3rd century AD. It reports that a consignment of myrrh was carried off, mentions payments by people from the pottery, and asks Severus to send Georgenes to have nails made and someone to bring up oars.
The word ηλαμος is obscure, and several words (Chakes, ἐλάτας, ἐλαύνει) are uncertain in meaning; ἐλάτας may mean oars or fir timbers.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
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