One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19428
Letter from Apollonios to Herakleios about loaves of bread TM 19428Hermopolites115 - 117 (?)
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A fragmentary private letter from Apollonios to Herakleios, the steward of the strategos Apollonios of Heptakomia, mentioning a request by Anoubion to the strategos and asking for a supply of half-choinix loaves to be delivered. It belongs to the Apollonios archive from the Hermopolite nome, about AD 115-117.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Apollonios to his dearest Herakleios, greetings.
Anoubion my brother asked the most excellent strategos Apollonios about certain matters in the Hermopolite nome […] he wrote to you about this […]
[…]
[…] Anoubion writes this to him from you, necessarily you […] I wish (?), dearest, since we have need of […] loaves […] 300 (?) half-choinix loaves, which you will deliver to the people here; and send this letter of mine back to Heptakomia […] collected from the […] will give to me […] of Apollonios.
I pray for your health, dearest Herakleios.
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[verso]
To Herakleios, steward of Apollonios, strategos of Heptakomia.
The numeral before the half-choinix loaves (written as tau, 300) is uncertain in context. A half-choinix loaf was a standard bread ration measure.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Apollonios an Herakleios). 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.25
[r] Ἀπολλώνιος Ἡρακλείωι τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. Ἀνουβίων ὁ ἀδελφός μου ἠρώτησε τὸν κράτιστον στρατηγὸν Ἀπολλώνιον περί τινων ἐν Ἑρμοπολείτηι […] ἔγραφέ σοι περὶ τούτου[…] […]…[…] […]Ἀνουβίων γράψηι τοῦτο αὐτῶι παρὰ σοῦ ἀναγκαίως σε[…] λω, φίλτατε, ἐπεὶ χρεία ἐστὶν ἡμεῖν ἄρτων[…]υπο…