APIS Translation (English)
"With God! I do reverence to, and I greet with the salutation, your beloved honored Governorship. May the Lord spare you! I received your letter and noted it. And it made me (want) to flee; for you alone know that I have spent three days sitting while the business is ruined and a(n alloted portion of ?) water is cut off (?). It will take a lot of money at our expense, and the place is not thriving. We do our work. And I tell you that Muhammad is ending his account (?). Bassere, the poor child, I will testify for her. And this is nit just to my means. You worry me (?) that he took his . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . my money in. I did not get a carat. See, my . . . . . . . . . . I did not get hold of them. And if my business has given you trouble in Mallawi (?) God it is who is between me and you that I will not sleep in the village now under my promise. For I am estranged from the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. And persevere, I took what I took to the Devil. And my wife, the mother of my children, is divorced now for the third time of my divorcing; and twice (?) I slept with her, sleeping with Kyra, my mother who bore me, even though it were in the place of my promise. I know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . which (?) I gave. I took some money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that she . . . . . . Antinoe. But it rests with you to settle (?) this matter. You are the . . . . . . . . . . . of the place, like the Governor, Abu I-Bishr, may the Lord guide him! while (?) he settles (?) every business which is ours. Salvation in the Lord! And the word of the Lord is this: if she comes to Mallawi (?) then I will send her to him if the Lord is willing.";(Verso): "From your slave."