Letter
The letter is complete, but the writing has, for the greater part, faded. According to the address on the verso, the letter is sent by a certain Collouthos to Apollos the protocometes. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 18935
Letter to Apollos the protokometes concerning Kallimachos and Victor TM 18935Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)c.AD 514-36
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A badly faded letter from the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito, addressed on the back to Apollos, the village headman (protokometes). It mentions the most illustrious Kallimachos, the most pious Victor, an estate administered by Ioannes, a payment of half an artaba of wheat per aroura, and the city of Antinoopolis.
In English machine translation
[recto]
May your [worship] deign […]
of the most illustrious lord Kallimachos, and to join him with the most pious Victor
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… of an aroura of the estate under Ioannes, 1/2 artaba of wheat …
[… 1 line lost …]
from the city of the Antinoites
[verso]
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To Apollos, protokometes
Protokometes means a chief village official, roughly a village headman. The sender's name, Kollouthos, comes from the object description of the verso address and is not preserved in the edition text here.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre). 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.masp.2.67203
[r] καταξιώσῃ ἡ ὑμέτερα[…] τοῦ λαμπροτάτου κυρίου Καλλιμάχου καὶ συνάψαι αὐτὸν τῷ εὐλαβεστάτῳ Βίκτορι [… 2 lines lost …] … ἀρούρης τοῦ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννην κτήματος σίτου ἀρτάβης ἥμισυ … [… 1 line lost …] ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀντινοέων πόλεως [v] [… ? lines lost …] Ἀπολλῶτι πρωτοκωμήτῃ