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Letter from Hermaiskos to Herakleides about wool, camels and a trip to Alexandria TM 26600unbekanntII - III

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A business letter from Hermaiskos to Herakleides, announcing a journey to Alexandria via the Mareotis and instructing him to see the strategos with Ammonios. It also deals with money for buying blue-dyed wool, a payment of up to 900 drachmas for camels to Lamyrios' people, and the care of a man until the writer's arrival. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[margin] … [recto] Hermaiskos to Herakleides, most honoured, greetings. It was decided to go out to Alexandria by way of the Mareotis. Take the trouble to go with Ammonios to the strategos so that you may tell him why I am coming; for I sent Ammonios on purpose. You will receive from Ammonios 48 drachmas for the purchase of dyed blue wool, provided he gets it from Lamyrios; but if not, you yourself will advance the money. If it is agreeable, you will give the people of Lamyrios up to 900 drachmas for camels; if not, take him along with his baggage and amitha cakes and look after him at your place until I arrive. You will receive from Ammonios two palm (?) […]. I pray for your health, most honoured one. [verso] […] to the strategos […] […] greetings […] [… 13 lines lost …]

Amithai were a kind of cake or pastry; the word read as 'phoinei…' (probably palm-related goods) is incomplete. The verso preserves only traces of another text addressed to a strategos.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III

[r,ms] … [r] Ἑρμαίσκος Ἡρακλείδῃ τῶι τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. ἔδοξε διὰ τοῦ Μαρεώτου ἐξελθεῖν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. σκύληθι σὺν Ἀμμωνίῳ πρὸς τὸν στρατηγὸν ἵνʼ αὐτῷ μεταδῷς ἐφʼ ὃ παραγίγνομαι. ἐπίτηδες γὰρ ἔπεμψα τὸν Ἀμμώνιον. λήψῃ παρὰ Ἀμμωνίου δραχμὰς μη εἰς συνωνὴν χρωματίνων ἐρίων καλα…