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A letter from Philip and Menas to George, comes and deputy landholder, at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century. They ask him to provide Elias and apa Ioulios with an account of money spent on newly built boats, which they could not find in the accounts of the great estate, and mention sums handled by the chartularius Kosmas.
The 'glorious estate' is probably a great landed household such as that of the Apions; antigeouchos means a deputy acting for the landowner. Line ends are lost throughout, so the sense of several sentences is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Philip and Menas to George). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
The letter belongs to the George-Victor series. It is from Philip and Menas to George and it relates to the account of expenses on some boats which had been constructed, but owing to the loss of the ends of lines throughout, the sense is not always clear.
[r] † παρακαλοῦμεν τὸν ἡμῶν δεσπότην δοῦναι Ἠλίᾳ καὶ ἄπα Ἰουλίῳ τὸ κ…[…] τῶν δοθέντων ὑπὲρ ο…[…]…[…] εἰς τὰ γενόμενα νέα πλοῖα ὡς ἐκ τῶν τιμίων ὑμῶν συλλαβῶν. οὔτε γὰρ ἡ αρ…[…] τοῦ τραπεζίτου, διὰ κωμῶν γὰρ τ[…]καὶ οὐκ ἐδυνήθημεν εὑρεῖν αὐτὰ ἐν τοῖς ἐνεχθεῖσι εἰς τὸν λόγον τῆς ἐν…
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