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p.brem.59 113 - 120Hermopolis (?)

Brief einer Frau an einen Apollonios via HGV-meta

Letter from a woman to Apollonios about purple for a head covering. Private letter from a woman to Apollonios, probably the strategos known from the Apollonios archive, reporting that she could not find suitable purple dye or wool for his head covering, since what was on offer was of poor quality. She sends greetings to Camilla, his wife and household, and mentions her son, a poet who sings to his own lyre. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] πολλα…[…] ἀπεβα[…] τοις ὅτι ἐχρόνισαν […]…ι ἀεὶ καὶ ἔδει αὐτὰ κατὰ τρόπον γενέσθαι. περὶ ἧς μοι ἔγραψας πορφύρας πρὸς τὴν σὴν κεφαλὴν ἐζήτησα παν… οὐχ εὗρον τοιαύτην πρὸς ἣν ἔχεις ὀξεῖαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ σαπρὰ εὗρον … τιμῆς. ἐχάρην οὖν μὴ εὑροῦσα, σαπρὰ γάρ ἐστιν καὶ τὰ σύνεργα. ἀσπάζου τὴν κυρίαν μου Καμίλλαν καὶ τὴν σύνβιόν σου καὶ πάντας τοὺς σούς. ἀσπάζεταί σε καὶ ὁ υἱός μου ποιητὴς αὐτόλυρος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι σε…[…]τι …[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] many (?) […] […] went away (?) […] […] that they delayed […] always and these things ought to have been done properly. About the purple you wrote to me about for your head, I searched everywhere (?) [but] did not find any such as the bright one you have; rather I found poor stuff […] of price. So I was glad not to have found it, for the materials too are rotten. Greet my lady Camilla and your wife and all your people. My son, a poet who accompanies himself on the lyre, also greets you. I pray for your health. [verso] To Apollonios […]

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Found at Hermopolis

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