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Letter requesting repayment of 6 solidi to Dioskoros TM 37289unbekanntVI - VII

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A letter of intercession to a high-ranking person addressed as "your brotherly Brilliance", on behalf of Dioskoros, who had paid 15 solidi for a purchase but had received back or been credited only 9. The writer asks that the remaining 6 solidi, due in the month of Pachon, be paid so that the heirs of a deceased man can fund holy offerings and their own needs.

In English machine translation

† Dioskoros, the son-in-law of Petros, the son of the brother of Tasnos, who lives here near me, has said that he gave to your brotherly Brilliance 15 solidi for the purchase of […] and of these, as he says, he received 9 solidi, but the rest he has not had until now, although their payment was due to take place in the month of Pachon. May your brotherly Brilliance therefore deign to order that these 6 solidi be given to the aforementioned Dioskoros, so that the heirs of the deceased may spend from them both on the holy offerings and on their own needs, and may take care of Dioskoros himself in whatever arises. †

The object of the purchase is lost in a gap. "Brotherly Brilliance" (lamprotes) is an honorific form of address for a person of high rank; "holy offerings" (prosphorai) are likely gifts to the church for the commemoration of the dead.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief, Geldrückzahlung betreffend). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII

† Διόσκορος ὁ γαμβρὸς Πέτρου ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Τασνου τῆς ἐνταῦθα μενούσης ἐγγύς μου εἶπεν ὡς δεδωκὼς τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀδελφικῇ λαμπρότητι εἰς ἀγορασίαν μ[…]ξαριθιων νομίσματα ιε καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἔλαβεν, ὡς λέγει, νομίσματα θ, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ οὐκ ἔσχεν ἕως νῦν τῆς καταβολῆς τούτων ὀφειλούσης …