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Letter of Ammonios and Hermokles to the strategos Apollonios about shares of arakos TM 19596Hermopolis (?)Ende 117 - Anfang 118 (?)

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Ammonios and Hermokles write to Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia district, complaining about his letter to Sarapion, strategos of the Lykopolite nome, concerning the division of shares of arakos (a legume crop) between them. They mention the disturbances caused by the Jewish revolt and send a river guard to obtain his reply before the epistrategos visits the Lykopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[column 1] Ammonios and Hermokles to the most esteemed Apollonios, greetings. Know that, since at present we have not had the opportunity, because of the transport downriver of the public wheat, to run to you and complain about […], we are aggrieved, as men of no account, by you, through the letter you wrote to the strategos of the Lykopolite nome, Sarapion, about our not sharing with you a half share of the arakos, but that we […] share and you from a third and […] having come […] this. [column 2] For if not […] at the requisitions (?) of Artorius Priscillus, the former epistrategos, we were jointly inquiring about the shares […] that you should take two shares and we […] in the distribution (?) of the arakos in the Hermopolite nome, that we were involved […] by halves, and then […] to you from the Hermopolite nome that the half be handed over, so that you might be relieved both of the produce and of the […], we hastened by writing to one another […] however, because of the disturbances of the Jews, now […] it is for your conscience to act, by which […] your prudence […] you disregard (?) not much […] but also since there is civil strife. [column 3] For this reason, then, we have sent a river guard to you, so that you may write back to us whatever you think, and the matter can be settled before the visit of the most excellent epistrategos to the Lykopolite nome. I pray for your health, lord […] [… lines lost …] [verso] To Apollonios, strategos of the Heptakomia.

Arakos is a leguminous crop (a vetch or chickling), here apparently a public delivery shared between districts. The 'disturbances of the Jews' refers to the Jewish revolt in Egypt of AD 115-117.

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 Ammonios und Hermokles). 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 · Ende 117 - Anfang 118 (?) · Hermopolis (?)

[r,1] Ἀμμώνιος καὶ Ἑρμοκλῆς Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. ἴσθι, οὐκ εὐκαίρως σχόντες ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος διὰ τὴν τοῦ δημοσίου πυροῦ καταγωγὴν ἀποδραμεῖν πρὸς σὲ καὶ μέμψασθαι περὶ […]…ων λυπούμεθα ὡς ἀδιάφοροι ἄνδρες ὑπὸ σοῦ διʼ ἧς ἔγραψας ἐπιστολῆς τῶι τοῦ Λυκοπολείτου στρατηγ…