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A private letter from Dorotheos to his 'brother' Thalasios asking him to visit Didymos at a lodging-place in Oxyrhynchus to collect a set of garments Dorotheos had left behind and a woollen cloth given for dyeing, paying 1 keration for the dye work. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD.
The meanings of 'apantetērion' (a meeting-place or inn) and 'pellodochos' (perhaps a dealer in hides or vessels) are uncertain; 'synthema' likely stands for synthesis, a matched set of clothes. The keration was a small gold-based money unit.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dorothei ad Thalassium epistula). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] κυρίῳ μου τιμιωτάτῳ ἀδελφῷ Θαλασείῳ Δωρόθεος. θέλησον ἐπιζητῆσαι ἐν Ὀξυρύνχῳ ἐν τῷ ἀπαντητηρίῳ Δίδυμον τὸν πελλοδόχον καὶ δέξασθαι παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὸ σύνθεμα, ὅπερ ἐληθάργησα πάλαι, καὶ τὸ ἐριογλαῦσιν, ὅπερ αὐτῷ παρέσχον ἵνα αὐτὸ βάψῃ, καὶ δοῦναι αὐτῷ κεράτιον α ὑπὲρ τῆς βαφῆς μισ…
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