One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19414
Letter from the master weaver Chairemon to the strategos Apollonios about yarn for cloaks TM 19414Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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A short letter from Chairemon, head of a weaving workshop, to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, acknowledging safe receipt of warp and weft yarn for cloaks and asking for a similar pattern or model to be sent with future consignments. It belongs to the archive of Apollonios, early 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Chairemon, master weaver (histonarches), to Apollonios the strategos, greetings.
You sent me the warp and the weft for the cloaks in good condition. So I ask you, child, whenever you are going to send, send me a pattern (?) like this one. I greet your wife and all who love you. Farewell.
[verso]
To Apollonios the strategos.
A histonarches was the head of a weaving shop. The word entypē is rare; it probably means a pattern or sample showing how the cloth should be woven.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des ἱστωνάρχης Chairemon 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.
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[r] Χαιρήμων ἱστωνάρχης Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι χαίρειν. ἔπεμψάς μοι ὑγιῶς τὸν στήμονα καὶ τὴν κρόκην τῶν φαιλωνίων. παρακαλῶ σε οὖν, τέκνον, ὁσάκις ἐὰν μέλλῃς πέμψαι, ἐντύπην μοι τοιαύτην πέμψον. ἐπισκοποῦμαι τὴν σὴν σύνβιον καὶ τοὺς φιλοῦντάς σε πάντας. ἔρρωσο. [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρα…