Fragmentary Byzantine letter in which the writer, sending again through the admirable Theophilos, explains that he needed oil locally and received one and a half measures of radish oil from Theophilos, and asks that the steward Paulos be ordered to provide a corresponding amount in return. It mentions a magnificent count and complains that letters have not been sent.
In English machine translation
[recto]
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[…] again I write through my lord the most admirable brother Theophilos […] of the most magnificent and renowned count, so that your admirableness may deign […] written to it, just as also through other letters […] for somehow until now you have not sent the letters […] […] a need for oil has arisen for me here […] and I have asked the same my lord the most admirable brother Theophilos […] he provided me with one and a half (measures) of radish oil […] to order Paulos the steward (pronoetes) to provide […] for the same oil that was given to me here and […] of my lord the most admirable Theophilos, steward […] and a half, so that he may provide it to him. Master, I have written […]
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[verso]
[…] in all things most admirable and most virtuous
[…] divinity (?)
Pronoetes was an estate steward or manager on large Byzantine estates. The unit of the one and a half measures of oil is lost; the verso preserves part of the address with honorific epithets.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.