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Fragment of a Greek letter from Aphrodito in the 6th century AD. The writer, addressing a superior as 'master', mentions the letter-carrier, a lord John, a certain Silvanus, and the receipt of one gold coin (solidus).
The right side of every line is lost, so the request being made cannot be reconstructed. The nomisma here is the Byzantine gold solidus.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de 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.
ὁ γραμματηφόρος ἄνθρωπος τυχὼν […] τοῦ κυρίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ ἐμοῦ δεσπότου[…] Σιλβάνου. καταξίωσον οὖν, δέσποτα,[…] προσέλθῃ τῷ δεσπότῃ τῷ μ[…] καὶ ὀλιγωρῆσαι εἰς εμε……[…] λαβεῖν τὸ ἓν νόμισμα ὑπαρ…[…] τῆς ἐπιστολῆς πλεῖστα ὡς πα…[…]
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