p.iand.2.24
Βίκτωρ ὁ ἐπικείμενος τῶν ἀγγαρευτῶν ἐπῆρεν τὸ κλ[…]παρακαλῶ σε οὖν, ἵνα ἡ σὴ γνησία ἀδελφότης γράψῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα δώσῃ μοι αὐτό· η[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 37113
Letter fragment asking a brother to intervene with Viktor, overseer of angareutai TM 37113Oxyrhynchos (?)VI - VII
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Fragment of a letter in which the writer complains that Viktor, the overseer of requisitioned transport workers, took something belonging to him, and asks the addressee, addressed as 'brother', to write to Viktor so that it is returned. It dates to the 6th or 7th century AD, probably from Oxyrhynchus.
In English machine translation
Viktor, the overseer of the angareutai (requisitioned workers), took the […]. [I ask you therefore that your] genuine brotherliness write to him, so that he may give it to me; […]
[… ? lines lost …]
The angareutai were men or animals requisitioned for compulsory transport service; the object Viktor took is lost in the break (the surviving letters 'kl' might suggest a key, but this 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 Fragmentum epistulae). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.