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p.cair.zen.4.59580 Mitte III v.Chr.

Fragment of letter to Zenon via HGV-meta

Letter to Zenon from a nephew with wishes for his health. Fragment of a private letter to Zenon, addressed as the writer's 'patros' (paternal uncle), from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC. The writer expresses the customary wishes for health and says they rejoiced to hear that Zenon and his companions were well and that someone had been freed (perhaps from illness). machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 1214. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] […]Ζήνωνι τῶι πάτρωι χαίρειν. εἰ αὐτοί τε[…] […] κατὰ γνώμην ἐστίν, εὖ ἂν ἔχοι[…] […]διὰ τέλους ποιούμεθα ἀγαπῶ…[…] […]ἀπηλλαγμένον καὶ ὅτι ὑγιαίνετε ἐχάρημεν[…] […]μεν. ἔρρωσθε […] [v] […]Ζήνωνι.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] to Zenon his uncle (?), greeting. If you yourselves [and …] are as you wish, it would be well […] we continually make (?) […] I am content (?) […] released (?), and that you are in good health we rejoiced […] […] Farewell […] [verso] […] to Zenon.

Connections

Found at Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

Cross-references (3)

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