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Letter to the strategos Apollonios requesting barley for animals hauling a column TM 19458Kaine (Panopolites)

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Official letter to Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia (Apollonopolites), introducing Chairemon, sent to collect barley. The writer asks that all the barley of the nome be sent quickly to Kaine, because many draught animals are being used to transport a fifty-foot column and fodder is nearly exhausted. Dated to year 3 of Hadrian.

In English machine translation

[…] to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings. You are not unacquainted, brother, with Chairemon, who delivers this letter to you; for last year too I left him with you for the receipt of the garments, and now I have sent him for the receipt of barley. I urge you to assist him in every way and to send him quickly all the barley that is in the nome under you, and to give him help, so that, loading all the barley with diligence, he may convey it quickly to Kaine, since because of the bringing down of the fifty-foot column we have very many animals and already we are almost out of barley. You will do me, brother, a very great favour in this too, if the barley arrives quickly […]. Year 3 of Hadrian Caesar the lord, […] 3. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia.

The column was evidently being brought down from the eastern desert quarries; the barley was fodder for the haulage animals. 'Brother' is a conventional address between officials, not a family tie.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Amtliches Schreiben an Apollonios mit der Bitte um Lieferung der Gerste des Apollonopolites). 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 · Kaine (Panopolites)

[r] […] Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. Χαιρήμονα τὸν ἀναδιδόντα σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον τοῦτο οὐκ ἀγνοεῖς, ἄδελφε· καὶ γὰρ πέρυσι ἐπὶ τὴν παράλημψιν τῶν ἱματίων αὐτὸν παρὰ σοὶ κατέλειψα καὶ νῦν δὲ πρὸς παράλημψιν κριθῆς ἔπεμψα αὐτὸν, ᾧ παρακαλῶ ἐν πᾶσι σπουδάσαι καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν οὖσαν…