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Letter to the strategos Apollonios requesting the village scribe TM 19439Apollonopolites Heptakomias117 - 120 (?)

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A letter from a man whose name ends in -los to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome, asking him to send the village scribe or the scribe's secretary, because some people are delaying their written declarations. It dates to about AD 117-120.

In English machine translation

[…]los to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings. If you think fit, send here either the village scribe or his secretary, since for this reason some people are putting off issuing their sworn written declarations. And yesterday, knowing this, I gave him orders as I was setting out. I pray for your health, my lord. Phaophi 12.

Apollonios is the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome under Trajan and Hadrian. Cheirographia here means a signed written declaration, often under oath.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Schreiben an den στρατηγός 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 117 - 120 (?) · Apollonopolites Heptakomias

[…]λος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. εἰ δοκεῖ, πέμψον ἐνθάδε ἢ τὸν κωμογραμματέα ἢ γραμματέα αὐτοῦ, ἐπεὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὑπερτίθενταί τινες τὰς χειρογραφίας προέσθαι. καὶ ἐχθὲς δὲ εἰδὼς τοῦτο παρήγγειλααὐτῶι ἐξερχόμενος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου. Φαῶφι ιβ.