Date: 3rd year of Ptolemy IX Soter II, 4th of the Egyptian month Choiak

Translation: Polemon to Polemon, greeting. I have written to Artemidoros the collector to stop work at Kerkeosiris until he proceeds to the city, and that Aristippos will come to an understanding with him. Do not therefore run away from anybody, for at present you have no produce. If he gives you trouble go up with him. Good-bye. The 3rd year, Choiak 4. (Addressed on the verso) To Polemon.

Content: Polemon informs Polemon that a collector had been instructed to stop operations at Kerkeosiris for the moment.

Paleographic description: Regular cursive

Lines: 12 lines, on recto along the fibers.

Physical properties: Margins: top, 4.7 cm.; left, 2.1 cm.; right, 0.5 cm.; bottom, 6 cm.; in bottom left corner, in red ink "21"

Publication status: published

Section/Side: On verso, along the fibers, address

Notes: The identity and functionary capacity of both Polemons is not known. Identifications proposed by Grenfell and Hunt should be treated with great caution.

Provenance: Crocodile cartonnage at Tebtunis 12.2

UC Inventory Number: 1659