One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10019
Letter from Sambas to Ammineus about the visit of an imperial notary for the recruit levy TM 10019Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)ca. 346
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Opening of a letter from Sambas to Ammineus, part of the Abinnaeus archive, announcing that an imperial notary is arriving that day to collect army recruits and asking Ammineus to receive something. It dates to about AD 346, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
To my lord brother Ammineus,
Sambas.
Since my lord the imperial notary is fortunately about to visit us today on account of the levy of recruits, please, my lord brother, receive the […]
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The 'imperial notary' (despotikos notarios) was a member of the imperial secretariat sent on official missions, here the conscription of recruits (tirones). The letter breaks off before its request is fully stated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.abinn.17
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀμμινέῳ Σαμβᾶς. ἐπειδὴ ὁ κύριός μου ὁ δεσποτικὸς νοτάριος εὐτυχῶς σήμερον ἐπιδημεῖν ἡμῖν μέλλει τῆς τῶν τιρώνων συλλογῆς ἕνεκεν καλῶς ποιήσεις κύριέ μου ἄδελφε, ἐκδέξασθαι τὰς [… ? lines lost …]