Letter requesting release of a woman from prison to harvest her land TM 36820Antaiopolites (?)VI

A fragmentary 6th-century letter asking an official addressed as 'your most illustrious brotherliness' to release from prison a woman, the descendant of the late Herakleianos son of Gesios of the village of Psinomounis, on sureties from free men or shepherds of the village. The writer argues that she must harvest her land so the state's revenue does not suffer, as she has no one to manage her affairs.

In English machine translation

From the Dioskoros archive of Aphrodito; the beginning and parts of line 3 are lost. 'Limping' renders the Greek skazon, meaning the treasury would fall short of its revenue.

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.