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A private or business letter from Theoktistos to Apollonios from the Arsinoite nome. He asks Apollonios to send someone or something to be guarded, to find out who owns the sheep that have grazed on land there, and to check with the weaver Orsenouphis whether some tunics are ready and send them up.
The verb for the sheep implies they grazed over someone's land or crops illegally. The clause 'so that you do not send the names' is odd as written and may reflect a scribal slip; the end of the letter is lost.
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.
Θεόκτιστος Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. περὶ πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν. πέμψον …[…]…κι…ν εἰς …[…]…[…]… ἵνα αὐτὸν φυλάσσῃ ὡς ἔγραψας καὶ μελησάτω σοι ἐπιγνῶναι, τίνος ἐστὶν τὰ πρόβατα τὰ κατανενεμηκότα τὰ ἐκεῖ ἵνα τὰ ὀνόματα μὴ πέμψῃς καὶ περὶ τῶν χιτώνων μελησάτω σοι ἐπιγνῶναι…
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