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Fragmentary end of a business letter from Demetrianos to several recipients, instructing them about a debt owed by a certain Syros and about persuading Aphynchis and his partner, water-suppliers of a canal or estate called Okeanos, to take on further leases. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
The beginning of the letter is lost. The term rendered 'vineyard irrigation works' (ampelourgika) is uncertain, and 'Okeanos' is probably the name of a local canal or property.
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 Demetrianus). 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 …] τοῦ ἀγορευτοῦ εὐθέως. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι. Σύρος δὲ ὁ πράτης οὐδεμίαν δεξιὰν ἔχει. εἴπατε αὐτῷ περὶ ὧν ὀφείλει. δότω οὖν ὡς ἄλλοτε ἔγραψα μετὰ συνπεριφορᾶς. Φαῶφι ϛ. ἐὰν ἰσχύσητε πεῖσαι Ἀφῦγχιν καὶ τὸν κοινωνὸν αὐτοῦ τοὺς ὑδροπαρόχους τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ τῶν …
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