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The end of a 6th-century Christian letter from Oxyrhynchos to a high-ranking patron, asking that someone's clothes be sent for a holy feast and sending greetings to the patron's brother and the lady Indarous. It also reports that some recovered garments belonging to Theodoros the goldsmith were handed to the church's chief messenger.
The archisymmachos was the head of the symmachoi, couriers or messengers attached here to the church. The opening of the letter is lost, so the person requesting his garments is unnamed.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Part of a Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] [… 8 lines lost …] διʼ ἐμοῦ δὲ παρακαλεῖ ὑμᾶς πεμφθῆναι τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ διὰ τὴν ἁγίαν ἑορτήν. πολλὰ τοὺς πόδας τῆς ὑμετέρας λαμπρᾶς προστασίας ἀσπάζομαι, καὶ παρακαλῶ ἐξ ἐμοῦ προσκυνηθῆναι τὸν δεσπότην μου τὸν μεγαλοπρεπέστατον ὑμῶν ἀδελφὸν καὶ τὴν κύραν Ἰν…
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