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A private letter from Phoibammon to Philoxenos urging him not to neglect the payment that has fallen due before coming to the city. It also asks for fodder for an animal, mentions 5 gold solidi owed to a carpenter, grain, a landowner and a count. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD.
Kataboli is the scheduled installment of taxes or rents, here probably due to the landowner (geouchos). The word rendered 'measures' (mouia, a modius-type measure) is uncertain, and several passages are illegible.
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.
[v] ☧ ἦλθεν ὁ καιρὸς τῆς καταβολῆς. φρόντισον οὖν μὴ ἀμελήσῃς, ἵνα μὴ ὀχλήσῃς ἐνταῦθα, καὶ μὴ ἀνέλθῃς ἐς τὴν πόλιν πρὶν ἂν ποιήσῃς τὴν καταβολήν, καὶ μὴ ὡς εἰς ἡμᾶς ἀσχημονῆσαι ὁ δὲ σταρ……ησιν τοῦ γεούχου καὶ τοῦ βοηθοῦ. ποίησόν τινα δύο μουείων χόρτου ἐνεχθῆναι τοῦ ζῴου ταχέως. …
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