One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19416
Letter from Epaphroditos to Apollonios about loaves of white bread TM 19416Hermopolites113 - 120
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A letter from Epaphroditos, probably a servant or agent, to his master Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite-Heptakomias district, sending greetings to Apollonios' family including his wife Aline. He explains that the white loaves Apollonios asked for could not be sent by the 26th because Dioskoros was not sailing upriver on that day, nor anyone else. It dates to AD 113-120 and belongs to the Apollonios archive from the Hermopolite region.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Epaphroditos to Apollonios his lord, greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health together with my lord Herakles son of Apollon (?) and my lady Aline, for whom I do not cease making the act of worship before the lord Hermes and before all the gods. You wrote to me about pure (white) loaves to be sent to you through Dioskoros for the 26th. I found, however, that he was not sailing up by the day you wrote to me, nor anyone else […]
[…] you wrote to me […]
[…] you wish […]
[…]
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos.
The proskynema is a ritual act of obeisance made before a god on behalf of someone; Hermes here is the god of Hermopolis. The address 'strategos' on the back is restored; the name 'Herakles son of Apollon' may refer to a family member and its reading is uncertain.
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 Epaphrodeitos 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.giss.apoll.23
[r] Ἐπαφρόδειτος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῷ κυρίωι χαίρειν. πρὸ πάντων σε εὔχομαι ὑγιαίνειν μετὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου Ἡρακλᾶ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ τῆς κυρίας μου Ἀλινῆς ὧν οὐ διαλείπω ποιῶν τὸ προσκύνημα παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Ἑρμῇ καὶ παρὰ πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς. ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ ἄρτων καθαρῶν πεμφτῆναί σοι διὰ Διοσκόρου…