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Request for leave from the strategos Apollonios to the prefect TM 19437Apollonopolites Heptakomias28. Nov. 117
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Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias district, writes to the prefect of Egypt, Rammius Martialis, asking for 60 days' leave, enclosing a copy of an earlier letter. He explains that his property in the Hermopolite nome and its capital was neglected during his long absence and damaged in the Jewish revolt, and needs his attention.
In English machine translation
[1]
To Rammius Martialis, the most excellent prefect, Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias, greetings.
I have appended the copy of the letter which I have already written to you, lord prefect, concerning leave, so that, if it seems good to your Fortune, you may grant me sixty days for the setting in order of my affairs, especially now, when I think that in […] presses. I pray for your health, lord prefect.
Year […] of Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Choiak 2.
To Rammius Martialis, the most excellent prefect, Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias, greetings.
[…], lord prefect, […] once […]
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[…] to make use of; for not only have my affairs been entirely neglected because of my long absence, but also, owing to the attack of the impious Jews, almost everything I own in the villages of the Hermopolite nome and in the metropolis […] requires restoration by me. If, then, you assent to my request, after setting my affairs in order as far as possible I shall be able to apply myself more cheerfully to the duties of the strategia.
The 'attack of the impious Jews' refers to the Jewish revolt of AD 115-117 in Egypt. Komeatos (Latin commeatus) is the technical term for official leave of absence.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Urlaubsgesuch des στρατηγός an den Praef. Aeg.). 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.1.41
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