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A letter from Plolos, a potter, to Horos, a Syrian camel-driver, about wine. Plolos gave Horos ten spathia of old wine as freight payment and twelve more to carry to the Oxyrhynchite nome, sell at the current price, and bring him back the money, which he urgently needs. Third century AD, Oxyrhynchus.
A spathion is a wine jar of fixed capacity; 'strained' (hylisa) refers to filtering the wine into the jars. 'Syros' may be an ethnic (Syrian) or a second name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Plolos to Horus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Πλολῶς Ὥρῳ καμηλάτῃ Σύρῳ χαίρειν. καθὼς ὕλισά σοι οἴνου παλαιοῦ σπαθία δέκα ὑπὲρ φορέτρου καὶ ἐμοὶ σπαθία δώδεκα ἀρεῖν αὐτὰ εἰς Ὀξυρυγχείτην ὅπως πωλήσῃς τὰ δώδεκα σπαθία τῆς οὔσης τιμῆς ἐν τῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ καὶ κομίσῃς μοι τὸ ἀργύριον. μὴ οὖν ἀμελήσῃς, ἀλλʼ ἐρχόμενος φέρων μοι …
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