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A fragment of a letter from the Apollonopolis archive, mentioning a trip to the upper pagarchies, someone who refuses to accept gold, instructions the writer received, and something sent today through a soldier named Kollouthos.
The sender may be Elias, according to the catalogue title. A pagarchy was an administrative district of late antique and early Islamic Egypt, headed by a pagarch.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as D’Elias (?): fragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] […] ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὰς παράνω παγαρχίας δεξαι[…] ὅτι χρυσίον οὐ δέχεται· ἀλλὰ ἵνα πέμψω ὑμῖν τὸ […] οὐ δέχεται ἀφʼ ὑμῶν· οὕτως γὰρ παρηγγέλθην ἐκ τ[…] ἐπέμψατε καὶ ἐλάβετε ἐκ τοῦ ἡμῶν χ[…] σήμερον διὰ Κολλούθου στρατιώτου ἵνα δεχ[…] [… ? lines lost …]
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