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A fragmentary private or business letter to the magnificent landowner Strategios, acknowledging receipt of his letter, brought by the courier Timotheos on the second epagomenal day, and dealing with receipts for barley and affairs entrusted to the writer. The sender, apparently named Isak, writes in the 5th or 6th century AD.
A symmachos was a courier or armed messenger, typically in the service of a large estate. The epagomenal days are the five extra days at the end of the Egyptian year.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter). 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] τῇ δευτέρᾳ ἡμέρᾳ τῶν ἐπαγομένων ἐδεξάμην γράμματα τῆς ὑμῶν μεγαλοπρεπείας διὰ Τιμοθέου τοῦ συμμάχου καὶ σὺν θεῷ […]νονται αἱ ἀποχαὶ τῶν κριθῶν καὶ εὐτυχείᾳ ἐπικαταλήμψομαι ὅσον οὐ[…] ὀλιγωρήσῃ τὸ ὑμέτερον μέγεθος ὥστε[…]τοῦτο γενέσθαι[…] τὰς ἀποχὰς τῶν κριθῶν εὐθέως ἀνα[…] πο…
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