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Letter of recommendation for Malchos from the epistrategos Philoxenos to Apollonios TM 19591Hermopolis (?)117 - 119 (?)

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A short letter of recommendation from Flavius Philoxenos, epistrategos of the Thebaid, to Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia district, asking him to treat a certain Malchos as one of Philoxenos' own people. It belongs to the archive of Apollonios and dates to about AD 117-119.

In English machine translation

[recto] Flavius Philoxenos to Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia, greetings. I do not suppose you are unaware that Malchos is my man, so treat him as you would my own household. Why should I write more to you? For you know my disposition. I wish you good health. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos, from Flavius Philoxenos, epistrategos of the Thebaid

The epistrategos was the Roman official over the regional governors (strategoi) of a large division of Egypt. The phrase rendered 'my own household' literally means 'my own part'.

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 Epistrategen Fl. Philoxenos). 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 (?)

[r] Φλάουιος Φιλόξενος Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι Ἑπτακωμίας χαίρειν. οὐκ οἶμαι ἀγνοεῖν σε ὅτι Μάλχος ἐμός ἐστιν, ὥστε οὕτως ἔχε πρὸς αὐτὸν ὡς πρὸς ἴδιόν μου μέρος. τί σοι γράφω πλείονα; οἶδας γάρ μου τὴν διάθεσιν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε βούλομαι. [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι παρὰ Φλαουίου Φιλοξένου …