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Beginning of a Latin letter of recommendation from Iulius Repositus to his colleague Claudius Germanus, concerning Ammonius, an orthographus of their legion and a close friend. Only the opening and the address on the back survive; the papyrus comes from the Herakleopolite nome.
The date AD 157 (?) is not shared by the museum record, which gives late 2nd to early 3rd century. The abbreviation leg( ) n( ) may also mean 'of our legate' rather than 'of our legion', and the exact role of an orthographus (a kind of clerk) 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 Latin Letter of Recommendation). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
First five lines of a letter in Latin. The text mentions an orthographus leg( ) n( ) (which is perhaps to be expanded leg(ionis) n(ostrae) rather than leg(ati) n(ostri), though the rank of orthographus legionis is unknown), and palaeographically for the use of a short overwritte…
[r] Iulius Repositus Claudio Germano suo salutem et praesens te domine frater rogaveram coram Ammonium orthographum legionis nostrae amicum nostrum carissimum […] [… ? lines lost …] [v] Claudio Germano a Iulio Reposito collega
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