p.amst.1.90
[r] [… ? lines lost …] … […]… χαίρειν. ἐκομισάμην ἣν ἔγραψάς μοι ἐπιστολὴν διὰ πολλοῦ […]ε χρόνου ἀντιπεφωνημένην μοι ὑπὸ σοῦ. λογίζομαι δὲ ὅτι διὰ τὸ πολλὰ σοῖ […]…ενετο … [… ? lines lost …] [v] […]ωνι στρατηγῷ Λυκοπολίτου
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24939
Letter to a strategos of the Lykopolite nome TM 24939Lykopolites, ÄgyptenI - II
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Fragment of a letter addressed on the back to a strategos of the Lykopolite nome in Upper Egypt. The writer acknowledges receiving, after a long delay, a letter the official had written in reply; the rest is lost. It dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[… lines lost …]
…
[…] greetings.
I received the letter you wrote
me after a long
[…] time, sent to me in reply by you. I reckon that because of the many […] to you
[…] happened (?)
…
[… lines lost …]
[verso]
To […]on, strategos of the Lykopolite nome
The strategos was the chief civil administrator of a nome (district); only the ending of his name, -on, survives in the address.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.