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Fragment of a business letter from the 3rd century AD in which the writer tells the addressee he will go to a property that day and report what is removed or harvested, mentions that a water-wheel is to be finished the next day, and describes a dispute with the steward Ploution over rent versus a one-third share of the yield.
The 'wheel' (trochos) is probably a water-lifting wheel used for irrigation. 'Steward' renders pronoetes, an estate manager; the arrangement in question seems to be fixed rent versus sharecropping for one third of the produce.
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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