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Letter from Apollonios to Maximus requesting honey for a crowning festival TM 33728OxyrhynchosIV

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A short private letter from Apollonios to Maximus, the steward of Lucius, urgently asking him to send four jars of good honey by messenger for a crowning festival, with the cost charged as Maximus has indicated. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

Apollonios to Maximus, steward (meizon) of Lucius, greeting. The very hour you receive my letter, make haste to send me 4 Knidian jars of suitable honey by the man who has been sent, for the most fortunate day of the crowning, the price being reckoned to your account as you tell me. I pray for your health for many years.

A meizon was an estate steward or overseer; a knidion was a jar type originally associated with Knidos, used as a measure. The 'crowning' (stepsis) may refer to a festival or a ceremony such as a wedding or an official's installation.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Apollonius to Maximus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.48.3422

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV · Oxyrhynchos

Ἀπολλώνιος Μαξίμῳ μείζονι Λευκίου χαίρειν. αὐτῆς ὥρας δεξάμενός μου τὰ γράμματα σπούδασον μέλιτος ἐπιτηδείου κνίδια τέσσερα ἀποστεῖλαί μοι διὰ τοῦ ἀποσταλέντος εἰς τὴν εὐτυχεστάτην ἡμέραν τῆς στέψεως, τῆς τιμῆς λογιζομένης σοι καθὼς δηλοῖς μοι. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις…