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Letter of recommendation for the beneficiarius Ulpius Malchus to the strategos Apollonios TM 19590Hermopolis (?)117 - 119

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A letter of recommendation from Vaberius Mundus to Apollonios, strategos (district governor), introducing Ulpius Malchus, a beneficiarius on the staff of the prefect Rammius who was assigned to Apollonios' district. It dates to AD 117-119, probably from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

Vaberius Mundus to Apollonios, strategos, greetings. I recommend to you Ulpius Malchus, beneficiarius of Rammius, our most excellent prefect, who is in charge of the district under you, a most excellent man. I hope that he too will make the effort to show himself to you such as I have affirmed him to be. And I have also written to him so that, if you join with him, he may make himself more readily available to you. I pray for your health, most honoured brother. Farewell.

A beneficiarius was a soldier detached for special duties on the staff of a senior officer, here the prefect of Egypt, Q. Rammius Martialis. The sender's name appears as Faberius in one record and Vaberius in the Greek text.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Empfehlungsbrief des Faberius Mundus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 117 - 119 · Hermopolis (?)

Οὐαβέριος Μοῦνδος Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι χαίρειν. Οὔλπιον Μάλχον βενεφικιάριον Ῥαμμίου τοῦ κρατίστου ἡγεμόνος ἡμῶν ἐπιμελόμενον τῆς ὑπὸ σὲ περιμέτρου ἄνδρα ἀγαθώτατον συνίστημί σοι. ἐλπίζω δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν δώσειν ἐργασίαν τοιοῦτον ἑαυτὸν παραστῆσαί σοι, οἷον ἐγὼ διεβεβαιωσάμην. καὶ αὐτ…