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Fragmentary Byzantine letter in elaborate courteous style, praising the addressee's benefactions and mentioning 12 solidi from an earlier letter and a brother of the lord Theodoros. The writer apologizes for troubling the addressee again about the matter.
The address on the verso calls the recipient 'master after God' and probably 'nourisher' (troph-), a common deferential formula. 'Nomismata' are gold solidi.
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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