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Letter to the veteran Agrippianus about documents concerning Arsinoite veterans TM 26963Alexandria (?)II

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A private letter from a man named Agripp[…] to his brother Agrippianus, a veteran, reporting that he has sent him an ordinance and a petition concerning the veterans of the Arsinoite nome and asking him to inform their friends. It dates to the 2nd century AD and was perhaps written in Alexandria.

In English machine translation

[recto] Agripp[…]s to Agrippianus his brother, greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in good health together with all your household, and I myself am well. After leaving you I hurried a great deal, wanting to catch my boat so that I could send you the document about the veterans, and I did not catch it. But just now, having found the man going up to you, I have sent the ordinance of the […] and the petition given […] of the veterans in the Arsinoite nome. So please, brother, make it known to all the friends, so that we may not appear ungrateful. Concerning the epistrategos, as I told you […] when he goes out […] you will do nothing. Greet Agrippinus and your little girl. Farewell, most honoured brother. [verso] To Agrippianus […], veteran.

The epistrategos was the senior Roman official over a group of Egyptian nomes. "Brother" may be a 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 Brief an den Veteran Agrippianus). 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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bgu.11.2129

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

[r] Ἀγριπ[…]ς Ἀγριππιανῷ τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν μετὰ τῶν σῶν πάντων, καὶ ἐγὼ αὐτὸς ἔρρωμαι. ἐξελθὼν ἀφʼ ὑμῶν πολλὰ ἐδίωξα θέλων καταλαβεῖν τὸ πλοῖόν μου ἵνα πέμψω ὑμῖν τὸ περὶ τῶν οὐετρανῶν, καὶ οὐ κατέλαβον· ἄρτι δὲ εὑρὼν γὰρ τὸν ἀνερχόμενον πρὸ…