cpr.8.55
[r] † θελήσῃ σου ἡ καθοσίωσις ἀπαλλᾶξαι τὸ πρᾶγμα Ἀιουλίου τοῦ γραμματηφόρου καὶ μὴ συγχωρῆσαι αὐτὸν ἔν τινι προσελθεῖν, ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο αὐτὸ ᾔτησέν με γράψαι τῇ σῇ καθοσιώσει καὶ ὁ μεγαλοπρεπέστατος κόμες […]μινος †. [v] ἐπίδος τῷ …
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 34819
Letter requesting settlement of the affair of the letter-carrier Aioulios TM 34819Arsinoites (?)VII
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A short letter asking an official, addressed as 'your Devotion', to settle the affair of a letter-carrier named Aioulios and spare him further trouble. The writer says a most magnificent count had asked him to write. It dates to the 7th century AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† May your Devotion be pleased to settle the matter of Aioulios the letter-carrier and not allow him to be summoned (?) in any respect, since this very thing was asked of me, that I write to your Devotion, by the most magnificent count […]minos also †.
[verso]
Deliver to […]
'Your Devotion' (kathosiosis) is a Byzantine honorific form of address for officials. The count's name is only partly preserved, ending in -minos.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gesuch, eine Sache zu erledigen.). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.