Letter to Apollonios proposing a meeting in the metropolis TM 19639Hermopolis (?)113 - 120

Fragment of a private letter to a man called Apollonios, addressed as brother. The writer acknowledges that Apollonios is busy and eager to return, and tells him that he will stay in the metropolis the next day so that Apollonios can come and meet him there if his affairs allow. It dates to about AD 113-120, probably from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

The beginning of the letter is lost, so the writer's name does not survive. "Brother" may be a term of affection rather than kinship; the Apollonios addressed is probably the strategos Apollonios known from the same archive.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief an einen 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.