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Letter from Helladios to the pagarch Papas about the opponents of Sabinos TM 20249unbekannt675 - 676 (?)

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Letter from the notary Helladios to Papas, pagarch of Apollonos Ano, ordering him to send the legal opponents of a certain Sabinos, who had escaped, and to imprison their wives until word comes from the topoteretes that the matter is settled. It dates to about AD 675-676.

In English machine translation

[recto] † Truly, God willing, lord Papas, your God-protected brotherliness cannot put us […] because I wrote to it to send me the opponents of Sabinos, who ought to come down to me; it went off and put them into a fishing-boat without bread, and […] and they fled and went up and did not come to me at all. But […] let it hardly wait a single moment unless it puts them […] sends them to me wherever I am, since they ought to come down […] its passage. And, God willing, from now on let it learn above […] this is how it holds us, for not even when it wishes to put us […] let it immediately send to me through a soldier of Apollonos (Ano), who ought […] but let it put their wives in prison until it receives letters from my lord the most glorious topoteretes that they have settled their affair. And […] he too wishes to come, let him come, since it is its […] but the persons, in accordance with the letter already sent […] but by all means let them reach me wherever I am […] concerning their bad appearance it was written to me again yesterday […] so that it may expel them before he goes up †. […] [verso] [† To my God-protected lord and brother] Papas, pagarch, † Helladios, notary † † Concerning the opponents of Sabinos †

Papas is addressed with the honorific 'your brotherliness', so 'it' in the translation refers to him. The topoteretes was a high regional official, here the pagarch's superior.

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 pour l’envoi des adversaires de Sabinos). 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 (?)

[r] † ὄντως Θεοῦ κελεύοντος, Κῦρι Παπᾶς, οὐ δύναται βαλεῖν ἡμᾶς […]ἡ θεοφύλακτος ὑμῶν ἀδελφότης[…] διότι ἔγραψα αὐτῇ πέμψαι μοι τοὺς ἀντιδίκους Σαβίνου ὀφείλοντας κατελθεῖν πρὸς μὲ ἀπῆλθεν καὶ ἔβαλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς ἁλιευτικὸν χωρὶς ψωμίου, καὶ[…] καὶ ἔφυγαν καὶ ἀνῆλθαν καὶ οὐδὲ ὅλως …