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Letter from Helladios to the pagarch Papas asking him to send gold immediately, so that it will be waiting with Papas' agent at Panopolis when the topoteretes arrives there. It belongs to the archive of Papas, pagarch at Apollonopolis Ano (Edfu), and dates to about AD 675-676.
The topoteretes was a high official, a deputy or lieutenant of a governor; a pagarch administered a district (pagarchy) in early Islamic Egypt. The addressee's name Papas and the brother's name Ioannes are restored.
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: ordre pour que de l’or destiné au topotérète soit envoyé à Panopolis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] † τὰ γραφέντα[…]τῆς θεοφυλάκτου ὑμῶν ἀδελφότητος ἐδεξάμην γράμματα[…]πέμψατε εὐθέως τὸ τοιοῦτο χρυσίον ἵνα, ἐρχομένου τοῦ δεσπότου μου τοῦ ἐνδοξοτάτου τοποτηρητοῦ εἰς τὴν Πανός, εὕρῃ τὸ τοιοῦτο χρυσίον μετὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὑμῶν εἰς τὴν Πανὸς καὶ […]καὶ ἀσπάζομαι ὑμᾶς διὰ τοῦ γρά…
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