Letter of Dionysodorus (?) to Ptolemaeus
A letter to Ptolemaeus ordering a person who had brought the writer a petition to be sent to him. The writer's name is doubtful, but is perhaps Dionysodorus.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 8207
Letter from Dionysodoros to Ptolemaios ordering a petitioner to be sent up TM 8207Mummy A 8247 BC
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A short official letter, probably from Dionysodoros, instructing Ptolemaios to send him Demetrios, the man who had delivered a petition against Euagoras. It is dated to year 38 (of Ptolemy II), 247 BC, and was recovered from mummy cartonnage.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Dionysodoros to Ptolemaios, greeting. As soon as you receive the letter, send up to us Demetrios, who brought us a petition against Euagoras [...] to Alexandria (?) [...].
Farewell. Year 38, Panemos [...]
[verso]
To Ptolemaios.
The sender's name is largely restored and doubtful. 'Mummy A 8' refers to the cartonnage the papyrus was extracted from, not a place of writing; the words around 'Alexandria' are damaged and their sense 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 Letter of Dionysodorus (?) to Ptolemaeus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.hib.1.57
[r] Διονυσόδωρος Πτολεμαίωι χαίρειν. ὡς ἂν λάβῃς τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀνάπεμψον πρὸς ἡμᾶς Δημήτριον τὸν κομίσαντα ἡμῖν κατʼ Εὐαγόρου ἔντευξιν εἰς Ἀλεξανδρείας παρε[…]ν. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους λη Πανήμου […] [v] Πτολεμαίωι.