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Letter from Diogenes to a colleague whom he calls brother, urging him on the governor's orders to load the outstanding grain of the 14th and 15th indictions onto the boat of the skipper Eulogios within two days and to collect gold owed. He also asks for a basket of fodder for the stable animals; from Oxyrhynchus, 4th-5th century AD.
The embole was the compulsory shipment of tax grain, here under orders of the provincial governor (hegemon). The end of the text, apparently a postscript about chaff, is broken.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Diogenes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Γ…[…] Διογένης. καιρὸν ἔχεις τὴν ἐνβολὴν τοῦ σίτου τῆς ιδ καὶ τῆς ιε ἰνδικτίωνος πληρῶσαι. ὁ γὰρ κύριος μου ὁ λαμπρότατος ἡγεμὼν ἐκέλευσεν ὥστε ἐκ πλήρους τὴν λοιπάδα τῆς ιδ καὶ τὸ γένημα τῆς ιε ἰνδικτίωνος ἐνβαλέσθαι εἰς τὸ πλοῖον τὸ ὑπὸ Εὐλόγιον κυβερνήτην. …
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