Fragment of a letter to a protokometes about a payment to the bearer TM 36813Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)VI

Fragment of a sixth-century letter from Aphrodito asking the recipient, addressed as 'your brotherliness', to give something, apparently a sum of two and a quarter carats, to the bearer of the letter. The verso address names the recipient as a protokometes (village headman).

In English machine translation

A protokometes was a leading official of a village. 'Of Apollo' may refer to the town or nome of Apollonos (Apollonopolis) rather than the god.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d’une 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.