Fragmentary letter about public workmen at Babylon and threshing-floor business TM 39112unbekannt

Fragment of a letter concerning public workmen at Babylon (Old Cairo) and the business of the threshing floor and storing of chaff. The writer asks for precise information and urges haste in completing a payment or delivery, addressing the recipient with the honorific 'your God-protected brotherhood'.

In English machine translation

The papyrus belongs to the Apollonos Ano archive (Edfu), of the late 7th century AD. Babylon here is the fortress at Old Cairo, a centre for requisitioned labour in the early Arab period, not the city in Mesopotamia.

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