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A private letter from Ammonios to Athenodoros, acknowledging a letter received from him and mentioning people who are in Herakleopolis. It closes with a wish for his health and is dated to Pachon 7 of a regnal year of a Caesar, from the Herakleopolite nome.
The emperor's name and regnal year are lost, so only the day and month survive. The address to Athenodoros as 'brother' is restored and may be a conventional term of affection rather than kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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] Ἀμμώνιος Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν ὡς εὔχομαι· ἔχω τὰ παρά σου γράμματα διʼ ὧν ἐσήμαινες περὶ τῆς […]να μοι οὐ κακοπαθεῖ α[…] εἰσὶν ἐν Ἡρακλέους πόλει[…]ω ἕως γενόμενος· σήμερον οὖν τεύξομαι[…]τὰ δʼ ἄλλα σεαυτοῦ ἐπιμέλου ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνῃς· […]…
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