Letter from Elias about carpenters and boats requisitioned for the fleet TM 39091unbekannt

Fragment of a letter from Elias concerning requisitions for the fleet. It mentions Kallinikos, a bucellarius (armed retainer), the boiled wine (hepsema), an order for carpenters to be sent down immediately, and boats compared with the previous year. The letter is addressed on the back to an honoured 'brother'.

In English machine translation

Hepsema is boiled-down wine or must, often supplied as a requisitioned commodity; karaboi were light boats. The papers of this archive come from Apollonos Ano, Upper Egypt, around AD 700, but no date or provenance is given in the records here.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as D’Elias: réquisitions pour la flotte). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.