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Brief des Metrodoros an Apollonios via HGV-meta

Letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios. Fragmentary letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios, apparently passing on instructions received and asking someone to come. It is dated year 9 (revenue year 10), Tybi 2, with a docket on the back dated Tybi 5, from the Arsinoite nome in the late 3rd century BC. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

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Transcription

[r] Μητρόδωρος Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. […] παραγινο…[…] …ωι ἐπεστάλμεθα δὲ καὶ …[…] σημῆναι ἀποστ[…]…[…] ἔτους θ ὡς δ’ αἱ πρόσοδοι ἔτους ι Τῦβι β [v] […]… οικονομ ἔτους θ ὡς δ’ αἱ πρόσοδοι ἔτους ι Τῦβι ε Μητρόδωρος παραγενέσθαι …[…] […]…[…] […]… παραγενέσθαι […]…

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Metrodoros to Apollonios, greetings. […] arriving (?) […] […] and we have been instructed also […] to indicate […] send (?) […] Year 9, as the revenues (are reckoned) year 10, Tybi 2. [verso] […] oikonomos (?), year 9, as the revenues (are reckoned) year 10, Tybi 5. Metrodoros, to come […] […] […] to come […]

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