1221. Letter of Isidorus. Find an explanation of the colors displayed in the Greek text here.
12.4 x 7.6 cm.	Late 3rd or early fourth century.
This letter, in which Demetrianus is informed where the corn-dues of the western toparchy were being paid, perhaps belongs to the category of official rather than private correspondence. Both the writer and the recipient were probably public functionaries of some kind.
Κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Δημητριανῷ   Ἰσίδωρος χαίρειν. τὰ μετρήματα τῆς πρὸς λίβα ἐν τῷ Παραι- τονίῳ διὰ τῶν ἐκεῖ γεωργῶν κατὰ το ἔθος μετρεῖται. τῷ οὖν Ζωιλᾷ μὴ ἐνόχλει περὶ τούτου.            ἑρρῶσθταί σε            πολλοῖς χρόνοις            εὔχομαι.
'To my lord and brother Demetrianus from Isidorus, greeting. The deliveries of the western toparchy are being measured in at Paratonium by the cultivators there according to custom. Do not therefore worry Zoïlas about this. I pray for your lasting health.'
4-5. τῆς πρὸς λίβα: sc. τοπαρχίας. for Παραιτόνιον cf. 653.