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Letter to a lord requesting justice in a grain purchase dispute TM 39128unbekannt

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Fragmentary letter to a high-ranking official addressed as 'your God-protected lordship', concerning a purchase of 150 artabas involving a woman named Tremaos, payment of prices, and the role of the priest and monk Apa Dios. The writer asks for a just settlement, mentions craftsmen working on a wheel-mill, and apologizes lest he be thought arrogant.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] to buy from you 150 artabas […] […] in the name of Tremaos, and moreover he has given her 30 […] […] to your Christ-loving city, to pay her the prices in full and to receive […] […] of the woman the […] […] your God-protected lordship to order to give […] […] for we do not want anything beyond what is just. I was informed (?) how […] […] Apa Dios, the most God-beloved priest and monk, and he did not think fit for me to receive […] […] to your God-protected lordship. Perhaps then my lord concealed it from him […] […] […] the craftsmen to work on the wheel-mill and […] […] good and perfect […] your God-protected lordship […] […] him, so that my fault may not be counted against me, but rather that he may remember […] […] by prayers from God. Your God-protected lordship has written ordering […] Over [verso] […] following this order not […] […] about this. Apa Dios, the priest and holy monk, however, did not sail up […] […] and Sebastianos accordingly […] made use of (a boat?) to sail […] […] I fear lest you say that out of arrogance I did not want […] […] which may it not happen. I beg you, order […] […] those sent ahead by me to you […] […] I sincerely kiss your feet, greeting your footsteps […]

The commodity of the 150 artabas is lost in the gap. The archive this belongs to is from Apollonos Ano (Edfu) in the 7th century AD, though no date or place is given in the records provided.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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