Fragment of a letter from Dionysios to Keleesis
A fragment of a letter from Dionysios to Keleesis, probably not from the archives of Zenon.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1064
Fragment of a letter from Dionysios to Keleesis, komarch of Philadelphia TM 1064Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)2nd half of the 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragment of a letter from Dionysios to Keleesis, the village headman (komarch) of Philadelphia in the Fayum. The surviving words mention a kleros (allotment of land), a letter, an instruction to give an order, and measuring out, probably of grain.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Dionysios to Keleesis […]
of the kleros, produce (?) […]
a letter […]
and order […]
[…] to measure out […]
[…] care (?) […]
[verso]
To Keleesis, village headman of Philadelphia.
A kleros was a plot of land allotted to a settler, usually a soldier. The letter was found with the Zenon papers but is thought probably not to belong to Zenon's archive.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of letter from Dionysios to Keleesis). 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.cair.zen.3.59424
[r] Διονύσιος Κελεήσει[…] κλήρου γενη…[…] ἐπιστολὴν ἀσφ…[…] καὶ κέλευε α…[…] […] ἀπομετρης[…] […]…ι φροντις[…] [v] κωμάρχωι Φιλαδελφείας Κελεήσει.