Fragment of a letter, probably addressed to the strategos Apollonios, in which the writer mentions having delivered a copy of a petition to the prefect of Egypt. It belongs to the period AD 113-120 from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome.
In English machine translation
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you (pl.) register/endorse (?)
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I urge you, therefore, knowing […]
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I delivered to his excellency the prefect a copy of the petition; and before […]
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I pray for your health, my lord […]
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The reference to the prefect (hegemon) is largely restored; the Greek anaphorion means a petition or report submitted to an official. The scribe's misspelling 'hememoni' stands for hegemoni.
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, wahrscheinlich 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.