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Fragmentary copy of a letter from Sulpicius Similis, prefect of Egypt, to the strategoi of the Arsinoite nome, apparently concerning five-day reports and the inflow of water to the land, with an earlier letter from the strategos of the Herakleides division embedded in it. It is dated to Tybi of Trajan's 14th year (AD 110/111) and ends with a note of delivery by an assistant.
The names of the strategoi Themistos and Polemon are restored. The subject, possibly irrigation or the flood waters, is only inferred from scattered phrases.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Sulpicius Similis the Prefect). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
This papyrus contains a letter of Sulpicius Similis, who was prefect in Egypt in 107-112 CE. The letter is enmeshed in another letter, probably written by one of the addressees who has forwarded this copy after the receipt of the letter.
[… ? lines lost …] ……ας…[…] ἔτους ιδ Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Νέρουα Τραιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ Δακικοῦ Τῦβι […] Σουλπίκιος Σίμιλις στρατηγοῖς Ἀρσινοίτου Θεμίστου καὶ Πολέμωνος χαίρειν.[…] ἀντίγραφον ἐπιστολῆς ἧς ἔπεμψέ μοι[…]ὁ τῆς Ἡρακλείδου μερίδος στρατηγὸς […] ἐπεὶ οὖν ἔδοξέ μ…
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