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A fragmentary private or business letter from Ph[…] and Olympios to their 'brother' Nearchides, reporting that sailors had met them with guards and mentioning a canal and boats. They ask him to write back. It comes from the Hermopolite nome in the 4th century AD.
The name of the first sender is lost except for its opening letter Ph-. 'Brother' and 'lord' are polite forms of address and need not indicate actual kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief von N.N. und Olympios an Nearchides). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Νεαρχίδῃ Φ[…]…[…] καὶ Ὀλύμπιος χαίρειν. γίνωσκε, κύριε ἀδελφέ, ὅτι ἀπήντησαν πρὸς ἡμᾶς οἱ ναύται μετὰ τῶν φρουρῶν. φασὶ […] ὅτι ἀπελθόντων εἰς τὴν διώρυγα […] εἰρήκαμεν τὸ αὐτὸ […] … τῶν πλοίων ι[…] γο…δη σοι σπούδασον ὅπως καὶ ἀντιγράψῃς πρὸς ἡμᾶς [… 4 lines los…
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