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One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31524
Fragment of a letter from Ammonios and Dionysios to Alypios TM 31524Theadelphia (Arsinoites)III
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Fragment of a letter from Ammonios and Dionysios to Alypios, addressed on the back as 'most excellent'. Only the beginnings of lines survive, so the content is lost. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To Alypios […]
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as […]
yesterday (?) […]
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[…] and […]
the […] therefore […]
[…] if also […]
[…] we are […]
so that […]
of the […]
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tell me […]
[verso]
To Alypios, the most excellent,
from Ammonios and Dionysios
Alypios is very likely the well-known estate manager of the Heroninos archive at Theadelphia; 'most excellent' (kratistos) is an honorific title used for men of high rank.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di lettera ad Alypios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.