Letter from Elias the notary to the pagarch Papas about repairing a boat TM 39093unbekannt

[recto] […] I received the letter after I came to Antinoou on the fifth of the month, stating that cypress wood [...] and I was surprised that it came laden to [...]oussa. After I sent the cypress wood [...] he did not write again just now what more he wants, but [...] he, wishing to stay on at his home with his brothers [...], and they wishing to count the days against me toward the lease payment (pakton), bearing in mind that while we are still writing down to him twenty days pass, and while they are still coming up another month passes. So in writing and writing back two months pass, and they want another two months for the repair, so that four months are counted, which, God willing, will not happen. And for this reason I told him, when he told me that he wanted to repair the boat, to leave it laden at my house, and at [...]oussa he would find what he needed at once, and not delay at his home. But he would not bear to listen to me, expecting to stay at his home and count the days against me. So, not to write at length, from now on I am not sending him cypress wood, nor am I hurrying to send it. But if he finds the other planks he wants to buy, let him buy them wherever he finds them here [...] from the cargo. If not, let him put into it the other planks of acacia wood, and let your admirable brotherhood make him send the same boat down to me at once, repaired. I wrote to it the day before yesterday through the son of Enoch the soldier, and if it received [… lines lost …] [verso] † To my admirable brother Papas, pagarch of Upper Apollonos † Elias, notary †