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Letter of Panechotes to Hephaistion about registering two documents TM 26874OxyrhynchosII

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A letter from Panechotes to Hephaistion, also called Sarapion, asking him to have two private documents officially registered (demosiosis) promptly, sending them with their covering letters and 32 drachmas. The completed documents are to be handed over at the bank of Didymos near the library or at the notary's office of Herakleides; it dates to the 2nd century AD at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

[recto] Panechotes to the most honoured Hephaistion also called Sarapion, greetings. I have already shown you the affection I have for you; and now too I ask you, lord, not to overlook my request. For I have given the man who delivers the letter to you two demosioseis and the letters belonging to them, and 32 drachmas. So, as is your custom, complete their registration at once and give it to him, or to whatever other reliable person you approve, at the bank of Didymos by the library or at the notary's office of Herakleides. Let me know whatever you spend; and if anything more is needed for the clerical fees, my friend will give it to you and I will repay him. Farewell, lord, with all your household. [verso] Hephaistion […] notary's office(?) […]

Demosiosis was the procedure for registering a private contract in the public archives, giving it the force of a public document. The nomographeion was a notarial office where contracts were drawn up.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Panechotes to Hephaestion). 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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p.oxy.34.2726

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

[r] Πανεχώτης Ἡφαιστίωνι τῶι καὶ Σαραπίωνι τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν· φθάνω μέν σοι δεδηλωκὼς ἣν ἔχω πρὸς σὲ στοργήν· καὶ νῦν δὲ σοῦ δέομαι, κύριε, μὴ περιιδεῖν μου τὴν ἀξίωσιν· τῷ γὰρ ἀναδιδοῦντί σοι τὸ ἐπιστόλιον ἔδωκα δημοσιώσεις δύο καὶ τούτων τὰς ἐπιστολὰς καὶ δραχμὰς λβ· τὸν οὖν…