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Fragment of a 7th-century letter recommending its bearers to the addressee and asking that their case be heard favourably. The bearers, sheep owners in the eastern district, complain that they have been forced to pay the compulsory purchase levy in the western district as well, after already paying their customary share in the east.
Synōnē was a compulsory state purchase of goods, effectively a tax in kind; the addressee is referred to with a feminine form, probably an honorific title such as "your Excellency".
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἣν ἀναδείκνεται εἰς τὰς ἀνακυπτούσας […] ἀποκρίσεις, ἀλλʼ εἰς ἀνάμνησιν γραφω … τοὺς παρόντας καὶ ἀναδίδοντας αὐτῇ τὴν παροῦσάν μου ἐπιστολὴν ἱλαρῶς ἀκουσθῆναι καὶ διακριθῆναι τὸ κατʼ αὐτοὺς πρᾶγμα. μᾶλλον γὰρ πρόβατα ἔχουσιν ἐν τῷ ἀνατολικῷ μέρει, καὶ τὰ ὑ…
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