Letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios TM 704862Arsinoites14. Febr. 213 v.Chr.

Fragmentary letter from Metrodoros to Apollonios, apparently passing on instructions received and asking someone to come. It is dated year 9 (revenue year 10), Tybi 2, with a docket on the back dated Tybi 5, from the Arsinoite nome in the late 3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

The double dating "year 9, as the revenues year 10" reflects the Ptolemaic practice of reckoning a separate financial (revenue) year alongside the regnal year. The verso docket mentions an oikonomos, a royal financial official of the nome.

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