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Letter to the protokometes Apollos about harassment by Eudoxios TM 18422Antinoopolis (?)Before AD 547

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An official letter warning Apollos, headman (protokometes) of the village, that higher authorities are angry with him for allowing the illustrious Eudoxios to harass the affairs of the people of Peto. The writer orders him to stop any further interference and to have everything Eudoxios took returned. It belongs to the archive of Dioscoros, dating before AD 547.

In English machine translation

[recto] From […] Their authority has been informed by Apa Mousaios […] that the most illustrious Eudoxios sent (men) to harass the affairs of the people from Peto; and at this (their authority) became indignant against your admirableness, since your admirableness is more powerful than he in those places, and tolerated that the affairs looked after by their authority [be harmed]. And I know precisely that the most illustrious Eudoxios cannot in any way interfere in these affairs unless your admirableness wishes it. Make every effort, then, so that I do not have to write to you again, to allow no one any longer to interfere in them and harass them; but also [make every effort] that whatever he took from the said affairs be given back to them through men held by you. [For] I will tolerate [nothing] from the lord Eudoxios on this matter; but by all means do what has been written, so that you are not found enduring his indignation […]. For I write nothing more to you than this. [verso] [☧ Deliver to the most admirable Apoll]os, protokometes. χμγ

Apollos, father of Dioscoros, was protokometes (village headman) of Aphrodito; many restorations in this damaged text are uncertain. 'Their authority' is an honorific way of referring to a high official.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre administrative). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Administrative letter

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · JE40456 · Before AD 547 · Antinoopolis (?)

An employee of the office of the praeses(?) makes known to the protocometes Apollos that people in high places are unhappy with him, because he has not stopped a certain Eudoxios from abusing his power. The reconstructions of this incomplete piece are presented with all reservati…

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p.cair.masp.3.67290

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Before AD 547 · Antinoopolis (?)

[r] παρά ἐδιδάχθη ἡ αὐτῶν ἐξουσία παρὰ Ἄπα Μουσαίου[…] ὡς Εὐδόξιος ὁ λαμπρότατος ἔπεμψεν ἐπηρεάζων τοῖς πράγμασιν τῶν ἀπὸ Πετο· καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἠγανάκτησεν κατὰ τῆς σῆς θαυμασιότης, θαυμασιότητος ὡς ἰσχυούσης πλέον ἐκείνου ἐν τοῖς τόποις, καὶ ἀνασχομένης τὰ πράγματα βλαβῆναι τὰ φρο…