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Fragments of a 4th-century AD papyrus. The recto seems to be a letter or petition mentioning village headmen (komarchs) and something brought forward; the verso records a payment of 600 talents for the price of a hide, dated Mesore 8.
Komarchs were village headmen in late Roman Egypt. The sum of 600 talents reflects the heavy inflation of the 4th century.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as p.fuad.i.univ.App_II_322). 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] [… ? lines lost …] […] σου χρηστοτ…[…] […]…ν διὰ τούτων μου […]νηπίου προσκομίζω […] μὲν ὑποβληθεὶς […] ὑπὸ τῶν κωμάρχων[…]ν γνωσθῆναι τη […] ευτυγχανι καὶ αδε[…] […] ἄπρακτος ἐστὶν […] [… 2 lines lost …] [… ? lines lost …] [v] [… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] […]… τιμῆς …
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