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A private letter to Ischyrion, apparently a farm manager, sending 40 drachmas through some traders so that he can clear wild rue from around the date palms of an estate. The writer also asks him to get one or two yokes of oxen for irrigation and announces his own arrival on the 13th. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD.
The word rendered "split off" (σχισθωντων, probably for σχισθέντων) is obscure, and the sense of the phrase about the traders is uncertain. The end of the letter and the verso are lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Ischyrion). 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] χαῖρε, Ἰσχυρίων. κόμισαι διὰ τῶν σχισθωντων περὶ Ἡρακλέωνα μεταβόλων δραχμὰς μ ἵνα τὸ ἀγρικὸν πήγανον διαζεύξῃς τοῖς φοίνιξι, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ τῷ φοίνικι Μεικρᾶτος καὶ τῷ ἐξ ἀπηλιώτου τῆς καλύβης τῆς ἐκ γειτόνων τῆς αὐλῆς. πειράθητι δὲ παραλαβεῖν ζεῦγος βοῶν εἰς ἐπαντλεῖν τὸ κτῆμ…
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