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A fragmentary private or business letter addressed to the writer's lord, reporting a meeting with the most illustrious Ioannes about a payment of one solidus, and recounting a raid by robbers who went after statues of the city and tried to seize a lady's horses, breaking the leg of a black horse. It dates to the 5th century AD.
The left side of every line is lost, so the connections between clauses are uncertain. "Hepsema" is boiled-down must or grape syrup.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
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