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[r] Φιλία Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. ὁσάκις ἂν εὕρω τοὺς ἐρχομένους πρὸς σέ, ἀνάγκην ἔχω, κύριέ μου, ἀσπάζεσθαί σε καὶ …[…]λλειν […]ν α[…] […]ε…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι[…] παρὰ Φιλίας
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19647
Letter from Philia to Apollonios TM 19647Hermopolis (?)113 - 120
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Opening of a private letter from a woman named Philia to Apollonios, whom she addresses respectfully as 'my lord', saying she greets him whenever she finds someone travelling to him. The rest is lost apart from the address on the back. It dates to about AD 113-120, probably from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Philia to Apollonios, most honoured, greetings.
Whenever I find people coming to you, I feel obliged, my lord, to greet you and
[…] […]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
[verso]
To Apollonios […]
from Philia
Apollonios is probably the well-known strategos of the Apollonopolites Heptakomias, whose archive this text belongs to. 'My lord' (kyrie) is a common polite form of address and need not imply a formal relationship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief der Philia 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.