Letter from the deacon Esaias to the priest Martyrios about grain and wine TM 35841Oxyrhynchites (?)VI

[recto] As your piety wrote to me about the granary, see, Petros the servant has gone up to the city. Have the comes speak to him together with the steward. I did not find where to put the grain, because the two kyphai (storage containers?) have been filled. Make haste to come up here because of the remainder of the grain. When your piety comes, bring a padlock (?), so that I may put […] and put grain there. For with God's help the matter of the grain has gone forward and the agreement is very good. If you are ready to send my wages up before the rise (of the river?), let me know. For I have worn myself out here this year more than others. For God alone knows that if you were here, you would not do what I do. God is my witness how I work for you. As your piety informed me about the wine, by God, I have already had in use another 4 jars of wine. For I did not want to give grain in exchange for the wine jars I received for use. Write to me the […] of the letters. I greet you all warmly, from small to great. Send us a little oil, since I did not find any here, nor would Menas the eirenarch give me any for the solidus. Let your piety know that I did not receive gold from Ioustos your son. [verso] Deliver to the most God-fearing Martyrios, priest, from Esaias, deacon.