Letter from Diogenes the advocate to Eumathios with requests for supplies and news TM 33123OxyrhynchosIV - V

[recto] To my master Eumathios, Diogenes. Though I send many letters, after a long time I scarcely receive the letters sent by you, which you send rarely. I have sent now too, also through an allied soldier (?) belonging to Melas the speculator, three other letters. So I am writing so that you may receive them. Send me the water jars and cooking pots and flasks by the boat that carries the monthly provisions. You wrote me nothing about Philadelphos. How is he? Make Salious from Toka give you the cloak of Athanasios the assistant, so that you may send it to us here. And let a jar of cheeses be sent to us. Send olives and a little husked lentil and a little husked wheat, as much as was sent last year too. Send me the horns (posts) of the couch. I have often written to you to let me know about Theodoros, whether he has stopped suffering from his tooth. Let me know whether you have received the hay of Adeou, that of Kornelios, and about the cistern and about the summer works on the water-wheels, and whether the rents have been paid in full. How is Dionysia? I pray for your health for many years, my lord. [verso] To my master Eumathios in Oxyrhynchus, Diogenes, advocate.