p.lond.4.1385
[… ? lines lost …] […]τῶν παρόντων γραμμάτων[…] […] ἐντάγια κατέλαβον πρὸς σὲ π[…]ρ[…] […]εἰ εἶχες ἀγαθὸν πρὸ τῆς σήμερον[…] […]ν ἀμελλητὶ τούτους ἔκπεμψον πρὸς ἡμᾶς μὴ παραφυλάττων μίαν ψυχὴν καὶ μόνην. ἐγράφη μηνὸς[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19839
Fragment of an official letter ordering men to be sent without delay TM 19839Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)ca. 709 (?)
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Fragment of an official letter, probably from the Arab governor of Egypt to the local administrator of Aphrodito, ordering that certain men be sent without delay and that not a single person be held back. It refers to entagia (demand notes) that had been delivered to the recipient and dates to around AD 709.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] of the present letter […]
[…] the entagia (demand notes) have reached you […]
[…] if you had any good (sense?) before today […]
[…] without delay send these men out [to us],
[not holding back] a single soul. [Written in the month] […]
Entagia were written orders or demand notes issued by the Arab administration. The letter belongs to the Aphrodito archive of correspondence from the governor Qurra ibn Sharik to the pagarch Basileios.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.