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Letter from Helladios to the pagarch Papas requesting a boat to collect Blemmyan dues TM 20245unbekannt675 - 676 (?)

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Letter from the notary Helladios to Papas, pagarch (district governor), reporting that he has gone up to Latopolis and asking that a good fishing boat be provided so he can travel and collect the gold owed for the Blemmyes' plots of land and the price of sheep. It dates to the 4th indiction, probably AD 675-676, and belongs to the Papas archive from Apollonos Ano (Edfu).

In English machine translation

[recto] † So that your most magnificent brotherliness may know that, with […] assisting, I went up to Lato (Latopolis) about dawn (?) […] and since […] with Kyros son of Pachymios today, I thought it necessary to write to you so that you may arrange […] for me a good fishing boat, so that by it I may go up without hindrance, God willing, and complete (the collection of) the gold for the plots of land of the Blemmyes and the price of the sheep, since they instructed me about this […] so that henceforth I may not come and be hindered on account of the gold […] and of the boat. And I greet you through this letter. † […] indiction 4 † [verso] † To my God-protected master and brother Papas, the most great pagarch, † Helladios, notary †

The Blemmyes were a nomadic people of the Eastern Desert and Nubian borderlands who here appear holding or paying for land plots. The reading 'about dawn' for the restored diaphauma is uncertain.

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: qu’un bateau soit mis à sa disposition pour percevoir les redevances dues par les Blemmyes). 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 · 675 - 676 (?)

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