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Letter from Nikanor to the strategos Apollonios about dispatching a boat TM 19459Hermopolites (?)
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Letter from Nikanor to his master Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, reporting that a registration task kept him busy until midday, after which he went to the harbour, sealed the cargo and sent off the boat in the afternoon. It is dated Tybi 10 and belongs to the Apollonios archive, probably from the Hermopolite region.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Nikanor to Apollonios his lord, greetings.
The registration of the square (?) kept us until the sixth hour; when it was completed I went at once to the harbour, and having sealed the mats (?) I sent off the boat at about the ninth hour.
[…] of the ninth […]
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[…] greets you.
Farewell, lord.
Tybi 10.
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia.
The hours are counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour is about noon and the ninth mid-afternoon. The meaning of 'registration of the square' (anagraphe tetragonou) and of psiethos (perhaps mats or wrappings) is uncertain.
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 Nikanor an 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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