p.brem.70
Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῶι παρὰ[…] καὶ παστοφόρου[…] [… 1 line lost …] ἰδίοις ἱεροῖς παραφυλακη[…] [… 1 line lost …] ἱερωσύνης κινδυνευ[…] [… 3 lines lost …] τῆς παραφυλακῆς [… 6 lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19656
Petition of a pastophoros to the strategos Apollonios about temple guard duty TM 19656Hermopolis (?)
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Fragment of a petition addressed to the strategos Apollonios by someone described as a pastophoros (a shrine-bearer, a minor temple official). The surviving words mention guard duty in temples and a danger to the priesthood. It probably comes from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
To Apollonios, strategos, from […]
and pastophoros […]
[… 1 line lost …]
in (their/his) own temples, guarding […]
[… 1 line lost …]
of the priesthood, (is/are) in danger […]
[… 3 lines lost …]
of the guarding
[… 6 lines lost …]
A pastophoros was a lower-ranking Egyptian temple servant; the word parafylake refers to guarding or watch duty, here apparently connected with temples. The strategos Apollonios is probably the well-known official of the Hermopolite nome in the early 2nd century AD, but no date is recorded.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eingabe an den Strategen 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.