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Letter of Alexandros and the Sadaleion commanders to the strategos Soteles TM 316209Herakleopolites50 - 49 v.Chr.

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Letter from Alexandros and the commanders of the soldiers stationed at the Sadaleion to Soteles, strategos and revenue official, acknowledging an official communication delivered by Pausanias. They announce that they will come, explaining a delay because the intervening day is the Sabbath. Herakleopolite nome, 50-49 BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] Alexandros and the commanders of the soldiers from the Sadaleion to Soteles, kinsman and strategos and in charge of the revenues, greetings and good health. Having received the official communication which [...] Pausanias [brought(?)] us from you, we shall be present [...] because the intervening day is the Sabbath. We therefore ask [...] [...] so that you may be well. Farewell [...] [verso] To Soteles, kinsman and strategos and in charge of the revenues

The reference to the Sabbath suggests the writers were Jewish soldiers. "Kinsman" (syngenes) is an honorific Ptolemaic court rank, not a family relation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ankündigung eines Besuches nach Empfang des Briefes von Soteles). 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 · 50 - 49 v.Chr. · Herakleopolites

[r] Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ οἱ ἡγεμόνες τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Σαδαλείου στρατιωτῶν Σωτέλει συγγενεῖ καὶ στρατηγῶι καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν προσόδων χαίρειν καὶ ἐρρῶσθαι. κομισάμενοι ὃν […] ἡμῖν Παυσανίας παρὰ σοῦ χρηματισμόν, παρεσόμεθα …[…] διὰ τὸ τὴν ἀνὰ μέσον σάββατον εἶναι. ἀξιοῦμεν οὖν […]…[…] ἵν’ ὑγιαίνῃς…