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Letter from Hermaios to Apollonios about school supplies for Heraidous TM 19472Hermopolis (Hermopolites, Ägypten)ca. 117
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A private letter from Hermaios to Apollonios, written around AD 117 at Hermopolis. After thanking him and conveying greetings from little Heraidous and Helene, Apollonios' mother, Hermaios asks him to have the steward hand over school supplies, such as a book for Heraidous to read.
In English machine translation
[…] to Apollonios
[…] greetings.
[…]
[…] letter […]
[…]
[…] for such a thing I thank you alone before the lord Hermes, and I do not cease making obeisance for you every day. Little Heraidous greets you, and Helene your mother. I, Hermaios, likewise greet you. I urge you […] to the steward, so that he may hand over to me the things needed for the school, such as a book for Heraidous to read.
Farewell, my lord. Thoth 2.
Part of the archive of the strategos Apollonios; Heraidous is his young daughter, and the letter shows a girl being supplied with a reading book for school. The 'proskynema' is a customary daily act of worship offered to a god on behalf of the addressee.
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 Hermaios 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.18
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