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Letter to Apollonios about an expense account, mats and oxen TM 27566Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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Fragmentary private or business letter addressed to Apollonios, apparently the estate manager or strategos, from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome. The writer reports sending three mats in response to a request about an account of expenses, and mentions a pair of oxen, fish, grain and sums of myriads.

In English machine translation

[Fragment A] […] to Apollonios, most honoured, greetings. As you wrote to me about the little account of the expenses, I immediately sent you three mats. The pair of oxen with this one not […] another twenty […] my […] bought […] and at another time […] of the island (?) and […] [Fragment B] […] […] wrote (?) […] […] we may have (?) […] […] three. A fish not […] […] for of grain […] […] [Fragment C] […] […] myriads […] to send you […] […] […]

The letter belongs to the archive of Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome in the early 2nd century AD. "Myriads" refers to units of 10,000, probably of drachmas.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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