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A 4th-century letter from Paulos, probably written in Alexandria, to the priest-monk Nepheros. Paulos reports sending 10 xestai of oil, asks Nepheros to press Paphnoutis into handing over 3 artabas of wheat for flour and bread, and to admonish two men he calls his enemies; a marginal note asks about 2 gold solidi sent through the monk Hor.
Belongs to the archive of Nepheros, a Melitian monastic leader in the Herakleopolite nome. The solidus (holokottinos) was the late Roman gold coin; the xestes was a liquid measure of roughly half a litre.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Paulos an Nepheros). 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,ctr] τῷ εὐλαβεστάτῳ πατρὶ ἡμῶν Νεφερῷ Παῦλος. διὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου ἀδελφοῦ Θεοδοσίου ἐλαίου ξέστας δέκα τῇ ἀσυνκρίτῳ σου θεοσεβείᾳ ἀπέστειλα, διὰ δὲ τὸ σπάνιον εἶναι ἐπιτήδειον ἀγγεῖον εὑρεθῆναι μέχρι σήμερον οὐκ ἀπεστάλκειμεν. θεοῦ δὲ ἐπινεύοντος ὅτε ἐνπίπτει ἡμῖν ἐπιτήδειον, χ…
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