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A Christian letter of recommendation asking the high-ranking addressee, the comes Herakleios, to help a party of men with horses travelling on behalf of a son, at the request of the lord Elias. It also asks him to write to Menas at Aphrodito so that someone may escort the travellers onward.
The honorific titles (your Magnitude, most illustrious, comes) and the mention of Aphrodito suggest a later Byzantine date than the 4th century given in the records. The destination Kaine M[…] is uncertain; diadochos may mean a deputy or successor in office.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] † τὴν περὶ ἐμὲ ἣν ἔχει προαίρεσιν τὸ ὑμέτερον μέγεθος ἐπιστάμενος ἀναγκαῖον παρενοχλῶ αὐτῷ διὰ τούτων μου τῶν γραμμάτων ἐφ… … τω βλ… τῆς ὑμετέρας μεγαλοπρεπείας ηι[…] ……ίου αὐτῆς υἱοῦ τοὺς αὐτοῦ ἱπποὺς καὶ τὸ β…δω…ν…η ἀπα[…] καὶ τοὺς ἅμα αὐτοῖς ἀνθρώπους ἐρχομένους αὐτόθεν, ἐ…
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