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Fragment of a letter, attributed to Theodoros, about a sailor named Pheu who carries the letter and owes up to one tremissis in the Hermonthite nome. The writer asks the recipients to arrange payment so that a distraint, which the most glorious topoteretes does not want, is avoided.
A tremissis is a gold coin worth one third of a solidus; the topoteretes was a high deputy official. The sailor's name Pheu on the verso is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as De Théodoros: l’affaire du batelier Phêü). 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] [… ? lines lost …] […]χρεωστεῖ ὁ παρὼν γραμματηφόρος ναύτης ἐν τῷ Ἑρμωνθίτῃ ἕως ἑνὸς τριμησίου[…] […] λοιπὸν καὶ αὐτὸν παρασκευάσατε πέμψαι τὸ τριμήσιν τ[…] […]ἐνεχυρασμὸς ἐνταῦθα, ὅπερ οὐ θέλει ὁ δεσπότης ἡμῶν ὁ ἐνδοξότατος τοποτηρητὴς † Φαμενὼθ κϛ ἰνδικτίονοςη † [v] περὶ τῆ…
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