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A letter from Justus, a servant or estate subordinate, to his master, reporting that he has sent a gold solidus of twenty carats from Kalamourion by the letter-carrier. He also passes on a woman's request that two younger men be sent to guard dykes. It comes from Oxyrhynchus in the 6th-7th century AD.
A solidus 'of twenty carats' was a gold coin reckoned short of the full 24 carats, a common accounting convention of the period. The middle of the letter is damaged and its syntax is loose, so the sense of the request 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 Justus). 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] † † τὸ ἄλλο ἓν νόμισμα εἴκοσι κερατίων τῶν ἀπὸ Καλαμουρίου ἔπεμψα τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ προστατικῇ περιβλέπτῳ δεσποτείᾳ διὰ τοῦ γραμματηφόρου, καὶ ἵνα μάθῃ ὁ ἐμὸς δεσπότης ὅτι ἡ ε…ε…[…]τ[…]τ…[…]ι απεκλεις πάλιν κατὰ λεπτὸν σῖτον οὐ μεγάλου τοῦ μέρους ἡμῶν ᾔτησέν μοι πρᾶξαι αὐτῇ ἵνα πέμψ…
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