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p.abinn.38 Mitte IVPhiladelphia? (Arsinoites)

Fragmentary letter to a lord, written on finding an opportunity. Fragment of the opening of a letter addressed to a 'lord', in which the writer says he took the opportunity to write. Only the beginnings of lines survive; it belongs to the mid-4th century AD archive of Abinnaeus, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

κυρίῳ[…] […] εὐκαιρίαν εὑρὼν[…] ἔγραψα […] σης ς…[…] δων εα[…] λος ος…[…] κύριον […] περ χρι[…] τῆς εα[…] ἐλθη[…] σεαυτ[…] οἶκος […] βαλλ[…] τον ς[…] ἵνα […] περας[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To my lord […] […] Having found an opportunity […] I wrote […] […] […] […] lord […] […] of the […] came (?) […] yourself […] house […] throw (?) […] […] so that […] […] [… lines lost …]

Connections

Found at Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

Cross-references (3)

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