Letter from Dioskoros to Theoteknos ordering the guarded transfer of a prisoner TM 37292unbekanntVI

[recto] † Send George the symmachos, as I also indicated through another letter, after he has attended on the lord Theopemptos, so that through him may be sent the swift and necessary reply which […] to the […] sent on my behalf. But indeed also another of those who attended on your Longed-for-ness [… convey (?) …] being kept there, and indeed also to three other village headmen of yours, so that he may come carefully guarded; for I promised to bring him up and release him. And perhaps […] hearing this he will not run away; but it is better to be on the safe side. And for this reason I want him to come up either with a crowd or with a wooden block on his feet, so that he cannot slip unnoticed out of the boat and escape. For the flight of the earlier one greatly harmed me, cost me, and ruined me. So, as God may have mercy on you, send him on very carefully, so that he cannot escape. † [verso] † […] to my lord Theoteknos † Dioskoros.