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A short letter from Phoibammon to Philoxenos, steward of Pakerky, ordering him to make Kyriakos son of Bamos settle a dispute by arbitration with the woman carrying the letter. He also asks that John and Parsakis be sent to him that same day with their swords and shields. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 6th century AD.
The steward (pronoetes) managed an estate, here Pakerky, probably for a large landowning household. The threat 'you will not be able to bear me' means the writer's anger would be unbearable.
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] † παρασκεύασον Κυριακὸν τὸν υἱὸν Βάμου ἀπελθεῖν εἰς δίαιταν μετὰ τῆς γραμματηφόρου γυναικός, ἀλλὰ πάντως παρασκεύασον ποιῆσαι. ζῇ κύριος, ἐὰν ἔτι ἔλθῃ πρὸς ἐμὲ καὶ μὴ ἀπηλλάγησαν, οὐκ ἔχεις μου βαστάξαι. πέμψον δὲ εὐθέως διὰ τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας Ἰωάννην καὶ Παρσάκιν μετὰ τῶν σπ…
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