Business Letter
Letter from Apollonides to Apollonios, informing the dioiketes that he has sent him a consignment of two hundred pear-shoots, after Apollonios himself had made a similar gift to the king
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1926
Letter from Apollonides to Apollonios about 200 pear shoots TM 1926Unknown place (Prosopite nome?), EgyptJuly-August, 257 B.C. (date of reception)
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A short business letter from Apollonides, a controller (antigrapheus), to Apollonios, the finance minister (dioiketes) of Ptolemy II. Because the pear trees from his own place had gone to the king through Apollonios, he has sent 200 pear shoots from another orchard. The docket gives year 29, month Panemos, and Arsinoe of Dion.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Apollonides to Apollonios, greeting. Since the pear trees at our place […] through you to the king, I have sent you from another orchard 200 pear [shoots].
Farewell. […]
[verso]
Apollonides, the antigrapheus (controller), to Apollonios, dioiketes.
200 pear trees. Year 29, Panemos.
At Arsinoe of Dion.
Part of the Zenon archive. The verb in the first line is lost, so how the earlier pears reached the king is not certain; the docket's 'Arsinoe of Dion' may mark where the letter was written or received.
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 Apollonides an 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.mich.1.24
[r] Ἀπολλωνίδης Ἀπολλωνίωι χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ αἱ παρʼ ἡμῖν ἄπιοι […] διὰ σοῦ τῶι βασιλεῖ, πέπομφα ὥστε σοὶ ἐξ ἄλλου παραδείσου ἀπίων φυτὰ σ. ἔρρωσο. […] [v] Ἀπολλωνίδης ἀντιγραφεὺς Ἀπολλωνίωι ἀπίων σ. ἔτους κθ, Πανήμου, διοικητῆι. ἐν Ἀρσινόηι τῆι Δίωνος.