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Letter from Ammonios to Sarapion about a petition and property records TM 31769Oxyrhynchitesspätes III

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A fragmentary private letter from Ammonios to Sarapion, from the Oxyrhynchite nome in the late 3rd century AD. It concerns a petition checked against the property record office, payments, a man named Ktesidemos, letters of recommendation and help from one Posidonios.

In English machine translation

[Greetings, my lord] Sarapion. I, Ammonios, [salute] you. […] I have accurately in hand [the petition] checked from the record office [of property records]. Herakleides wrote to me […] I gave the letter-carrier the […] many, so that you may take up those whom you lent to before […] you may give a share (?). Concerning the […] of the deduction (?) until today […] for [thus] perhaps we may be able to […] I submit the petition which he gave me […] to him the bank payment order. But the […] will be […] since we are troubled […] of Ktesidemos accurately from […] and if you learn that he has left […] write to me so that I may know. Thus […] concerning your affair, that […] from the (document) checked from [the record office] […] let him take courage, because I am not neglecting […] letters of recommendation […] Posidonios is helping […] his superior […] to Posidonios and […] greet my lord Ky[…] […]

The 'record office of property' (bibliotheke enkteseon) was the archive where ownership of land and houses was registered; documents could be certified as checked against it. The left side of every line is lost, so the connection of the topics is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Ammonius). 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 · spätes III · Oxyrhynchites

χαίροις, κύριέ μου Σαραπίων. Ἀμμώνιός σε προσαγορεύω. […]αντων ἀκριβῶς κατέχω τὸ βιβλίδιον ἐπεσκεμμένον ἐκ τῆς βιβλιοθήκηςτῶν ἐγκτήσεων. Ἡρακλείδης ἐπέστειλέ μοι […]ἔδωκα τῷ ἐπιστολαφόρῳ τὰς […] πολλῶν ἵνα ἄρῃς οὓς προεχρήσω[…]μετάλημψιν δοίης. περὶ τῶν […]τοῦ ὑπολόγου μέχρι σήμε…