One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121967
Letter from Achilleus to Apollonios, village scribe of Euhemeria TM 121967From: Euhemereia (?)I BCE
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A fragmentary letter from Achilleus to Apollonios, the village scribe of Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome, from the 1st century BC. It seems to concern a customary obligation and an inspection of land carried out by local officials on the 23rd of a month.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Achilleus to Apollonios, greetings. You ought, as is customary, […] to pay(?) these things […] but as […] and those who are on the spot themselves decided […] having gone over the arouras […] on the 23rd […]
Farewell. […]
[verso]
To the village scribe of Euhemeria.
The village scribe (komogrammateus) was the local official responsible for village records, including land surveys. The sequence in line 9 after the date is unclear and is left untranslated.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Apollonios from Achilles). 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.nyu.2.17
[r] Ἀχιλλεὺς Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. ἔδει μέν σε, καθότι εἴθισται,[…] ταῦτα τελ[…] ἀλλʼ ὡς παρο…[…] καὶ αὐτοὶ διέκριναν οἱ ἐπὶ τόπων ὄντες […] διελθόντες τὰς ἀρούρας τῆι κγ εκτηνηθ[…] ἔρρωσο.[…] [v] κωμογραμματεῖ Εὐημερείας.