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Letter to the strategos Apollonios about Phibas' journey to Hermopolis TM 19420Hermopolites113 - 120
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A letter from a writer whose name is lost to Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia district, answering his question about a certain Phibas. The writer confirms that Phibas has gone to Hermopolis and will come, the gods willing, for the festival of the Demetria. It dates to AD 113-120 and belongs to the Apollonios archive from the Hermopolite region.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] to Apollonios, the [lord?], greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health together with all your household.
I received your letter, in which you wrote that I should inform you about Phibas, whether he had gone to Hermopolis. So I inform you, so that you may not be in doubt: he did go to Hermopolis. The gods willing, he will come for the Demetria, and he greets you, wishing you good health. Greet all your people.
[Farewell.] Thoth 26.
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of Heptakomia.
The Demetria was a festival of the goddess Demeter. Apollonios was strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias district, and his archive includes many letters like this one.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief an Apollonios; Name des Briefschreibers verloren). 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.34
[r] […]Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι …[…]κυρίωι χαίρειν. πρὸ πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν μετὰ τῶν σῶν πάντων. ἐκομισάμην σου ἐπιστολὴν, διʼ ἧς ἔγραφες δηλῶσαί σοι περὶ Φιβᾶτος, εἰ εἰς Ἑρμοῦ πόλιν ἐπορεύθη. δηλῶ οὖν σοι, ἵνα μὴ διστάζῃς· ἐπορεύθη γὰρ εἰς Ἑρμοῦ πόλιν. θεῶν δὲ θελόντων εἰς τὰ Δημή…