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Letter to the pagarch Papas about Chrysaphios and a prior deed TM 39119unbekannt

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A fragmentary Byzantine letter from the archive of Papas, pagarch of Apollonopolis Ano (Edfu), concerning a man named Chrysaphios, an earlier written deed held by the sender, a purchase, and someone to be sent to Latopolis and imprisoned. The sender asks Papas for help and promises his thanks.

In English machine translation

[recto] † I received the letter from your God-protected brotherliness, and I rejoiced to learn from it of its good health. And having learned about Chrysaphios […] since I hold an earlier document, the right […] manner, how much more to buy, and I think that […] of it, and in the presence of many free men […] to make those who wish to make […] the force of my written deed, and they will stop […] the force of what was done for your God-protected brotherliness […] to send him at all in Laton (Latopolis) so that […] and be shut up in prison […] For the rest, then, I ask […] the builder's (?) [...] wrote so that […] [verso] † I have made ready the matter of the […] I ask therefore that you order with regard to what […] and as usual I shall thank it (your brotherliness); but […] the brotherhood between us and for the sake of the love of God toward me […] your lordship, and through this letter I make obeisance […] [Address] […] to the most magnificent count, councillor and pagarch † Papas †

Laton is the city of Latopolis (Esna). The word periskhema (line 12) is obscure; its meaning in connection with the builder 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 sur divers sujets). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

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