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A business letter from Clematia, a landowner, to her estate steward Papnuthis, instructing him to ship six artabas of a grain-and-lentil product on Pagas's boat, send up produce and wool, attend to baked bricks, and collect honey and honeycombs for a festival. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
Sitophakos appears to be a mixture of wheat and lentils, and the word rendered 'pears' (peira) is uncertain; Sadalos may be a place or estate name. Pakton/paktonarion is a small light boat.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Clematia to Papnuthis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
παρὰ Κληματίης γεούχου Παπνουτίῳ προνοητῇ Σαδάλου χαίρειν. παραμέτρησον εἰς τὸ πακτωνάριν Παγᾶτος σιτοφάκου ἀρτάβας ἓξ ἵνʼ ἔχωμεν ὧδε, καὶ βοήθησον Παγᾷ ἵνʼ ἔχωμεν ἐκεῖ ἔκτακτα τῆς τρύγης, καὶ πείρα καὶ ἔριον ἀνένεγκον διὰ τοῦ πάκτωνος καὶ μὴ ἀμελήσητε διὰ τὴν ὀπτόπλινθον. καὶ ἀπ…
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