One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19427
Letter from Syrion to Ailouras about a matter before the strategos TM 19427Apollonopolites Heptakomias113 - 120
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Private letter from Syrion to his friend Ailouras about a legal matter involving Dioskoros son of Dionysios. Syrion has forwarded a letter of support from Apollotas to the strategos along with one from Hermophilos, and asks Ailouras to visit Herakleios with Hermophilos to urge him on. From the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, AD 113-120.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Syrion to his dearest Ailouras, greetings.
I greet you and your children, may the evil eye spare them.
Apollotas, helping me in the matter of Dioskoros son of Dionysios, gave me a letter to the strategos asking him to put an end to the matter. So I rolled up the letter of Apollotas together with that of Hermophilos; for I recommended him because you had then sailed down. I urge you therefore to go together with Hermophilos to Herakleios, the son (?) of Apollotas, so that he may take more care of it because you are urging him on; for he himself also informed me through At[…] himself […] years again in Alexandria the forefather […] has been registered (?) […]
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[verso]
From Syrion, deliver to Ailouras.
The end of the letter is badly damaged and only scattered words survive. 'Unharmed by the evil eye' (abaskanta) is a common protective epithet for children in letters.
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 Syrion an Ailuras). 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.26
[r] Συρίων Αἰλουρᾶι τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. ἀσπάζομαί σε καὶ τὰ ἀβάσκαντά σου παιδία. Ἀπολλωτᾶς συνλαμβανόμενός μοι ἐν τῶι πράγματι Διοσκόρου Διονυσίου ἔδωκέ μοι ἐπιστολὴν πρὸς τὸν στρατηγὸν δεόμενος αὐτοῦ ὅπως πέρας ἐπιθῆι τῷ πράγματι. συνήλιξα οὖν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν Ἀπολλωτᾶτος τῇ Ἑρμ…