Letter
Letter addressed to Dioscoros, son of Apollos, by an agent sent to Constantinople about a lawsuit apparently taken to the tribunal of the prefect. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36811
Letter to Dioscoros concerning a holy offering and a holy place TM 36811Aphrodites kome (Antaiopolites)VI Century AD
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Fragmentary letter from the archive of Dioscoros of Aphrodite, sent by an agent who had been in Constantinople and refers to Apollos, father of Dioscoros, and to earlier benefactors Ammonios, Ioannes and Phoibammon. It concerns a holy offering (a donation to a religious foundation) and the restoration of the holy place, urging the addressee not to let the matter pass to an outsider. Written in the 6th century AD at Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Of the bearer of the letter […]
[…]
[…] of Apollos […] ranked among the leading men of the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome,
always cared for by your most glorious parents of renowned memory, I mean Ammonios and Ioannes and Phoibammon of everlasting memory, and not only by these but also by your most celebrated father in Constantinople,
having therefore been sent to your feet to relate to your lordship the matters concerning the holy offering of the same […]
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fittingly its restoration and the condition of the holy place in which it lay, which ought to be cared for by you more than by anyone, and not to allow the matter to pass to a stranger, to the ruin of the same holy place and of your offering, master.
The 'holy offering' (prosphora) refers to a pious donation, probably to a monastery or church. The beginning is damaged, so the writer's identity and the exact relationship of the persons named is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
p.cair.masp.1.67069
οὗ τῶν γραμμάτων[…] […]ιο[…] […]Ἀπολλῶτος φ[…]ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις τεταγμένος κώμης Ἀφροδίτης τοῦ Ἀνταιοπολίτου ἀεὶ φροντιζόμενος παρὰ τῶν ἐνδοξοτάτων τὴν μνήμην ὑμῶν εὐκλεῶν γονέων, φημὶ δὴ Ἀμμωνίου καὶ Ἰωάννου καὶ Φοιβάμμωνος τῶν ἀειμνήστων, οὐ μὴν δὲ τούτων ἀλλὰ καὶ παρὰ τοῦ πανευφ…