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A Byzantine letter from Georgios, an estate official (epikeimenos), to Theodoros, a comes and majordomo, asking him to send an old woollen cloak back from the fuller because the weather has turned. He also asks for news of the family's health and of the estate owner's orders about sending him to Herakleopolis, as he is anxious to settle his accounts and return to Oxyrhynchus.
The antigeouchos was the deputy or representative of a great landowner; the epikeimenos was an estate supervisor. The letter shifts oddly between second and third person in addressing its recipient, perhaps hinting at a female addressee in places.)
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as George to Theodorus). 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] † ☧ αἰτῶ τὴν ὑμετέραν γνησίαν ἀδελφότητα τὸ ὁλαίγειον καρακάλλιν τὸ παλαιόν, ὅπερ ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τοῦ κνάφεως, πέμψαι μοι διὰ Θεοδώρου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου μειζοτέρου, ἐπειδή, ὡς οἶδεν, ἠλλάγησαν οἱ ἀέρες. τὴν δὲ ὑγίειαν αὐτῆς καὶ τῶν παιδίων αἰτῶ αὐτὴν σημᾶναί μοι καὶ τὸ τί κελεύει ὁ …
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