A bureaucrat begins to fall out of favour

This letter, P.Eleph.10, was found on the island of Elephantine, which was the site of a Jewish military garrison during the Persian rule of Egypt.  Even though it came to rest on Elephantine, the letter, and 31 others found with it, concerns the finances of the nome capital Edfu 100km to the north.  All 32 letters make up the Milon Archive, which is named after the final recipient and collector of the letters.  On the whole, the archive illustrates the tangled mess of the temple finances and the attempts to set it right.  All letters in this archive date between 225 and 222 BCE.

A fuller description of the Milon Archive can be found here.

In P.Eleph.10 Euphronius writes to Milon, his representative in Edfu, to make sure that the temple payroll is correctly recorded and passed out.  At the end of the letter, Euphronius instructs Milon to have the payroll checked by two men, one whose name is lost and the second, Andron, who is either a friend or brother to Milon.  Andron wrote a personal letter to Milon, P.Eleph.13, and I may tackle a translation later.

The only published translation of the Milon Archive seems to be in Edfu, an Egyptian Provincial Capital in the Ptolemaic Period, to which I couldn't find access, so my translation originates solely from my own devises.  Reader beware!

Euphronius to Milon, greetings.  As it were, you read my letter.  After you take the pay from the bankers in the temples into the temple of Apollo in the great city, and in like manner of the grain that had been delivered from those near the stores from the very first time until it had been put in place according to month and to year.  Then let him make an order for payment into which years he had paid, and carefully send this work concerning the successors off to us, that according to these things we may not be hindered to send down into the city the words of those who were remaining at hand; but the pay is through Th[...]os and Andron so that they check it.

Year 13.  Pauni 15.

To Milon