Letter from Dionysios to Apollonios
Letter of Dionysios to Apollonios about sending some jars
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1822
Letter from Dionysios to Apollonios about sending jars TM 1822Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)261 BCE – 229 BCE
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Short business letter from Dionysios to Apollonios reporting that jars have been dispatched as Apollonios had instructed. The rest of the letter is lost. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Dionysios to Apollonios, greetings. The jars, as you wrote, have been sent [...]
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[verso]
From Dionysios, about jars. To Apollonios.
The jars (pithoi) were large storage vessels. The verso docket records the sender, the subject and the addressee.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Dionysios to Apollonios). 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.col.4.109
[r] Διονύσιος Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. οἱ πίθοι καθάπερ ἔγραψας ἀπεσταλμένοι εἰσίν [… ? lines lost …] [v] Διονυσίου πίθων Ἀπολλωνίωι