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The address on the verso being obliterated, the names of both sender and recipient of this letter are uncertain, but the mention of chartularius George, and of large payments both for Oxyrhynchus and Cynopolis, may connect it with the series that folllows (P.Oxy. XVI 1844 to 1861…
τὰ γραφέντα παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας μεγαλοπρεποῦς καὶ πανσόφου φιλίας ἐδεξάμην διὰ Γεωργίου τοῦ περιβλέπτου αὐτῆς χαρτουλαρίου κατέβαλεν δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ τὰ νομίσματα δισχίλια δεκαέξ , καὶ ταῦτα κατετάξαμεν χίλια μὲν ὀκτὼ νομίσματα ὑπὲρ συμπληρώσεως τῆς πρώτης καταβολῆς Ὀξυρύγχων δωδεκάτης …
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