One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19417
Letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios on measuring the canals of Ibion TM 19417Apollonopolites Heptakomias113 - 120
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A short letter from Hermaios to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, sending him the 'deigma' (sample or survey plan) of Ibion and reporting that the great canal of Ibion has been measured and work on another canal is starting. It dates to AD 113-120.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Hermaios to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings.
Receive the sample (?) of Ibion. Today we have already measured the great canal of Ibion and we are beginning the other one.
I pray for your health, my lord …
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite nome.
The Greek deigma usually means a sample, but in the context of canal measurement it may refer to a specimen report or plan of the survey. Ibion is a village name.
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 Hermaios 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.32
[r] Ἑρμαῖος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. κόμιζε τῆς Ἰβιῶνος τὸ δεῖγμα. σήμερον ἤδη ἀνεμετρήσαμεν τὴν μεγάλην τῆς Ἰβιῶνος διώρυγα καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀρχόμεθα. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι κύριέ μου …. [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι Ἀπολλωνοπολίτου.