One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19476
Fragment of a letter from Apollonios and a companion to Apollonios TM 19476Apollonopolites Heptakomias113 - 120 (?)
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Opening of a letter from Apollonios and a second sender whose name is damaged to their 'brother' Apollonios, who is greeted as most honoured. Only the greeting and the start of a message relayed through a certain Sarapion survive. It comes from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome in the early 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
Apollonios and Agat[…] to Apollonios, most honoured, greetings.
We greet you, brother, and we inform you through (?) Sarapion son of […] that […]
The recipient is probably the strategos Apollonios, whose archive this text belongs to. 'Brother' is likely a form of address rather than a statement of kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Briefes zweier Personen 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.42
Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Αγατ[…]τιω. Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. ἀσπαζόμεθά σε, ἄδελφε, καὶ δηλοῦμεν παρὰ Σαραπίωνος τοῦ …ηρατ…[…]λα… ὅτι …