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Letter from Apollonios to his brother Apollonios the strategos TM 27576Apollonopolites Heptakomias

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Fragmentary letter from a man named Apollonios to his brother Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia nome, asking a favour concerning a petition and mentioning copies of documents sent along with it, including a handwritten document and something connected with Memphis.

In English machine translation

[recto] [... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] the petition [...] that you will do me a great favour by doing this. I pray for your health, brother. [...] I have summoned (?) at Memphis [...] of the diastolikon (?) of Apollonios [...], a copy of which I also sent you together with the letter [...] [...] I remind you. Send the letter so that what follows may be done [...] as you wrote to me to send; and the copy of the handwritten document I sent you rolled up together with the letter. [verso] To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia from Apollonios, his brother

The recipient is Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia, whose archive dates to the early 2nd century AD. The term diastolikon, apparently an official order or authorization, is uncertain in this damaged passage.

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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