One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19460
Letter of recommendation from Tithoetion to the strategos Apollonios TM 19460Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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A letter of recommendation from Tithoetion to Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia district, asking him to help the bearer, Achilles, in whatever he needs. It belongs to the archive of Apollonios from Middle Egypt.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Tithoetion to Apollonios his brother, greetings.
I ask you to regard as recommended Achilles, who is delivering this letter of mine to you, and to take trouble for him in whatever he may need from you, [so that …] he, when he arrives back, may acknowledge your zeal on my behalf.
Farewell, Apollonios, [together with] your sister [Aline.]
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia.
"Brother" and "sister" are probably terms of courtesy or close friendship rather than literal kinship. The name of Apollonios' wife Aline is restored.
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 Tithoetion 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.
p.giss.apoll.37
[r] Τιθοητίων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. Ἀχιλλέα τὸν ἀναδιδόντα σοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν μου ταύτην ἐρωτῶ ἔχειν συνεσταμένον καὶ ἐν οἷς ἐάν σου δέηται σπουδάσαι αὐτῶι ὥστε[…]αὐτὸν παραγενόμενον ἀνθομολογήσασθαί σου τῆι εἴς με σπουδῆι. ἔρρωσο Ἀπολλώνιε μετὰ τῆς ἀδελφῆς σου Ἀλινῆς. […