Letter to the pagarch Papas requesting vegetable seed TM 39095unbekannt

End of a letter to Papas, pagarch of Apollonos Ano (Upper Apollonopolis), asking him to buy produce and vegetable seed and send it by the soldier carrying the letter, apparently for the value of a solidus. The sender may be a certain Elias.

In English machine translation

Papas was pagarch of Apollonos Ano in the later 7th century AD; the sender's name Elias is only a tentative identification. 'Vegetable seed' (lachanosperma) usually means seed pressed for oil, such as radish or rape.

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 (?): ordre de fournir des graines de légumineuses). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.