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Letter from a monastic superior to Petros about Arsinoite deliveries and a shipmaster TM 37226unbekannt546 - 547 (?)

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A letter from the head of a religious establishment to his 'brother' Petros, a high-ranking man, acknowledging his letter about the reception of some item or levy of the Arsinoite nome for the 11th indiction. The writer professes loyalty to the patrons Menas and Apion and raises the difficulties of a shipmaster after the glorious Hephaistos took office, probably AD 546/547.

In English machine translation

[recto] † † I received what was written [to me] by your splendid brotherliness and [learned] first of all of its health in Christ [and its] disposition [towards me], and then also about the reception of the […] of the Arsinoite (nome) of the eleventh indiction, with God's help; and may God fully satisfy your splendour. My prayer is always both to serve and to attend in all things the most glorious patrons Menas and Apion. But since the shipmaster is in straits, especially now that the most glorious and all-praised Hephaistos has taken up the offices, [I thought it] necessary [to write] also to your splendour […] [verso] To the most splendid of all and most dear to God and intimate brother, lord Petros […] […]tios, by the mercy of God superior (of the monastery?) of Makar[…]

Hephaistos is probably the Flavius Hephaistos who became praetorian prefect, and Apion likely a member of the Apion family; the date rests on this. The word for the received item in the Arsinoite is lost, and 'Makar[…]' on the verso may be a monastery name.

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

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p.erl.120

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 546 - 547 (?)

[r] † † τὰ γραφέντα μοι παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας λαμπρᾶς ἀδελφότητος ἐδεξάμην καὶ ἔμαθον πρωτοτύπως μὲν τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ αὐτῆς ὑγιείαν καὶ πρὸς ἐμὲ διάθεσιν, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ὑποδοχῆς τοῦ μ…[…]ρου τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου τῆς σὺν Θεῷ ἑνδεκάτης ἰνδικτίονος, καὶ πληροφορήσῃ ὁ Θεὸς τὴν ὑμετέραν λ…