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Letter from Eudaimon to Apollos about dykes, bricks and a tunic TM 26648Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)?II

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A private letter from Eudaimon to Apollos, whom he calls lord and brother, about instructing the mine or quarry guards concerning dykes, moving and sealing bricks, having a tunic woven for Chryseros, and a key. It dates to the 2nd century AD and probably comes from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Eudaimon to Apollos, [my lord] and brother, greetings. I have already written to you and kept on [writing about] the guards of the mine (or quarry), about the dykes, so that he may secure them; and I am doing something superfluous in writing, for you are capable on your own. About the bricks I am writing to you so that, if it is advantageous for them to be moved, you move them and seal them. Take care also to write to me through whomever you find. Have a little tunic woven for Chryseros. […] follow (?) […] […] of the strategos (?) […] we are expecting. If then you wish […] you should send word what we should do. [I greet] my mother and those in the house. [The] little key I ordered […] to Chairemon into the middle […] when they had gone out […] inside, earth (?). If then it happened […] but do not neglect [to do this]. [I pray] for your health, my brother. [verso] […] Deliver to Apollos [from Euda]imon.

The word metallon can mean a mine or a quarry. The middle lines are badly damaged and their sense, including the reference to an official (epistrategos?), 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 Brief des Eudaimon an Apollos). 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 · Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)?

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