One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27565
Letter from Hierakion to Apollonios about the foundations of the theatre TM 27565Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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Opening of a letter from Hierakion to Apollonios, his superior, reporting that the many foundations of the walls and columns of the local theatre are in need of something. The rest of the letter is lost. It belongs to the archive of Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome.
In English machine translation
Hierakion to Apollonios his lord, very many greetings.
The foundations of the walls and of the columns of the theatre here, being many, [need (?)] […]
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Apollonios was strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome in the early 2nd century AD. The text breaks off just after the word for 'need', so what the foundations required is unknown.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.giss.apoll.30
Ἱερακίων Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι κυρίωι πλεῖστα χαίρειν. οἱ θεμέλιοι τῶν τοιχῶν καὶ τῶν στύλων τοῦ ἐνθάδε θεάτρου πολλοὶ ὄντες χρείαν [… ? lines lost …]