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Fragmentary Christian letter of the 6th century AD about a sum of gold, asking the recipient, addressed as 'my master', to specify from which entry or account the gold comes, mentioning Gerontios the secretary. The address on the back is to a certain John, a comes.
The letters χμγ (numerically 643) at the top are probably the Christian isopsephism for 'God is helper' (theos boethos). 'Stichos' literally means 'line', here probably a line or entry in an account.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief). 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] χμγ † ἔγραψέν μοι ὁ ἐμός δεσπότης ὅτι τὸ χρυσίον τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὁ πέμψων μοι οὐκ […] ὄνομά ἐστι ἢ ἄλλο χρυσίον ἀπὸ Γεροντίου τοῦ γραμματέως ἢ ἐκ τῶν […]πο[…] καταξιώσῃ ὁ ἐμὸς δεσπότης ὀνομάσαι ἐκ ποίου στίχου ἡ εὐλα.[…] τὸ χρυσίον. [v] †ἐπίδος Ἰωάννῃ […]νία σὺν θεῷ κόμιτι
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