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Letter from Helladios to the pagarch Papas about boats and caulking TM 20239unbekannt

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A letter from Helladios to Papas, pagarch of Apollonopolis Ano (Upper Egypt), dealing with boats: iron supplies, a fishing boat, and orders to have caulkers caulk a vessel used in compulsory service and to prepare its oars. It is dated Mecheir 21 of a fourth indiction.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] I received [the letter (?)] of your God-protected brotherliness, and concerning the iron […] after receiving this I wrote to him that we did not find (a way) to get […] […] after I received your letter through the sailors, I wrote […] the work [may be done (?)] well. Concerning the fishing boat I have already written after I received your letter […] send this immediately. Instruct the caulkers to caulk the boat […] they are toiling in the compulsory service (angareia), and see to it that its oars are made […] simply not […] greeting you through this letter. † Month Mecheir 21, indiction 4 † [verso] † To my God-protected master and brother Papas, pagarch of Apollonopolis Ano, † Helladios †

Helladios is described as a topoteretes (deputy official); the Papas archive dates to the later 7th century AD. Angareia was compulsory transport service owed to the state.

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

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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