Fragment of a letter with copy of a letter to Hephaistion about irrigation works TM 1991Memphites (?)IIIrd century B.C.

Two small fragments of a Ptolemaic letter that apparently includes a copy of another letter addressed to Hephaistion. The surviving phrases mention compulsion, construction, irrigation, the month Phaophi, people associated with Thrason, and the place Akanthon, and seem to concern irrigation works, probably in the Memphite nome, in the mid-3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

Akanthon (Akanthos) was a locality in the Memphite region. The irrigation subject is inferred from the word for watering and the building references, since only line-middles survive.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.