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A short letter from Sarapammon to Theodoros, an estate steward, instructing him to take over the collections previously handled by the late Ioustos, to secure the grain from the farmers, and to keep two of Ioustos' staff with him for now. It dates to the 6th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.
The letter begins with "and", so an earlier part was apparently lost or on another sheet. A symmachos was a messenger or courier employed on large estates; the pronoetes was an estate steward.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to a Steward). 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] † καὶ τὴν ὑποδοχὴν πᾶσαν τοῦ μακαρίου Ἰούστου αὐτὸς ὑπόδεξαι, καὶ μὴ ἐάσῃς τὸν σῖτον ἐπάνω τῶν γεωργῶν. ἔασον δὲ Φίβιν ἐγγὺς σοῦ, ἵνα διδάξῃ σε τὰ πράγματα ἕως ὅτε μάθω ποῖον τύπον ὀφείλω δοῦναι αὐτῷ. τὸν δὲ σύμμαχον Ἰούστου ἔασον ἐγγὺς σοῦ ἕως ὅτε πληρώσῃ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν αὐτοῦ.…
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