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Fragment of a sixth-century AD letter from Aphrodito in which the writer asks the recipients to arrange matters for his voyage downstream. The address on the back is to 'the most esteemed in all things', possibly the village headmen (protokometai) of Aphrodito. It belongs to the archive of Dioskoros.
The identification of the addressees as protokometai (village headmen) rests only on the honorific 'most esteemed' (eudokimotatos) and is tentative. 'Voyage downstream' (kataplous) usually means a journey north toward Alexandria or Constantinople.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment d’une lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
It is possible that this letter was addressed to the protocometes of Aphrodito. The address on the verso is incomplete, and thus, any definitive answer regarding the addressees of this letter is tentative. However, the use of the term eudokimotatos seems to imply that the officia…
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