One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19464
Letter from Harpokration to Apollonios recommending an agent buying produce TM 19464Hermopolites (?)113 - 120
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A short letter of recommendation from Harpokration to Apollonios, asking him to help their agent, also named Apollonios, who has been sent to buy produce. It dates to about AD 113-120 and probably comes from the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Harpokration to the most honoured Apollonios, greeting.
I urge you, brother, to assist Apollonios, our agent, who has been sent by me for the purchase of produce, in whatever he may need from you. You will have done me a great favour.
Before all else I pray that you are well, most honoured one, with all your household.
Farewell.
The recipient is probably the strategos Apollonios, whose archive this letter belongs to; 'brother' is a courteous form of address. The word rendered 'agent' (cheiristes) denotes a manager or administrator of affairs.
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 [Harpokr]ation 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.40
Ἁρποκρατίων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. παρακαλῶ σε, ἄδελφε, συνλαβέσθαι Ἀπολλωνίωι ἡμετέρῳ χειριστῆι πεμφθέντι ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ χάριν ἀγορασμοῦ γενῶν ἐν οἷς ἐάν σου προσδέηται. ἐποίησας μεγάλως χάριτας. πρὸ πάντων ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι τιμιώτατε πανοικεί. ἔρρωσο.