Letter requesting a guard to recover money extorted from Serenos' slave and farmer TM 37307unbekanntVI

A Byzantine letter to a high-ranking official addressed as 'your Brilliance', reporting that certain people had maltreated a slave or servant of the notable Serenos and taken money from him and from Serenos' farmer. The writer asks that a guard be sent so that both victims can be brought before him and recover the farmer's property and the slave's 6 solidi.

In English machine translation

The Greek pais can mean slave, servant or boy; 'nomisma' is the gold solidus. The sum of 6 solidi was first written and then deleted in one line.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera bizantina). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.