p.brem.72
[…]Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. [… 1 line lost …] […]ποιήσει δέ μοι ἀναζήτησιν[…] […] ὥστε αὐτὸν αἰτη[…] ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, τιμιώτατε.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19658
Fragmentary letter to the strategos Apollonios TM 19658Hermopolis (?)113 - 120
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Fragment of a letter addressed to Apollonios, apparently the strategos of the Apollonopolite-Heptakomias district known from the Bremen archive. The few surviving lines mention someone making a search or inquiry on the writer's behalf. It dates to about AD 113-120, probably from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
[…] to Apollonios, the most honoured, greetings.
[… 1 line lost …]
[…] and he will make a search for me […]
[…] so that he […] ask (?) […]
I pray for your health, most honoured one.
The recipient is identified as the strategos Apollonios only from the catalogue title and the archive context; the text itself preserves just his name and the address 'most honoured'.
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 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.