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A short letter of instruction from Sarapammon to an assistant (boethos), telling him to hand over at once eighteen full-weight coins to Athanasios the dekanos so as to avoid trouble from him. It dates to the late 5th or early 6th century AD.
Eustathma ("full-weight") refers to coins, probably gold solidi, of guaranteed weight. A dekanos was a minor official or attendant; the opening word and the addressee's name are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anweisung von Sarapammon an einen βοηθός). 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] † εν…εν ἀπέλυσα πρὸς σὲ δεκαοκτὼ εὔσταθμα. σπούδασον οὖν ταῦτα εὐθέως παρασχεῖν Ἀθανασίῳ τῷ δεκανῷ. ἀλλὰ πάντως ταῦτα σπούδασον δοῦναι αὐτῷ εὐθέως, ἵνα μὴ διαστραφῇς δι’ αὐτοῦ. [v] ἐπίδος τῷ θαυμασίῳ κυρῷ …β… βοηθῷ † παρὰ Σαραπάμμωνος †
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