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p.hib.1.79 260 BCEHibeh, Mummy 87
Letter of Ptolemaeus to Heraclides via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Ptolemaios to Herakleides. Opening of a private letter from Ptolemaios to Herakleides, with the customary wishes for the recipient's health and affairs and a report that the writer is well. The rest, which began a request ("you will do me a favour"), is lost. It comes from mummy cartonnage found at Hibeh and dates to about 260 BC. machine translation
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TM 8228.
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- Letter of Ptolemaeus to Heraclides APIS-papyrus Hibeh, Mummy 87260 BCE
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Πτολεμαῖος Ἡρακλείδει
χαίρειν. εἰ ἔρρωσαι καὶ
ὧν πρόνοιαν ποιεῖ καὶ
τὰ ἄλλα σοι κατὰ λόγον ἐστὶν
εἴη ἂν ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω καὶ
τοῖς θεοῖς πολλὴ χάρις,
ὑγίαινον δὲ καὶ αὐτός.
ηδ…[…]
εὐχαριστήσεις μοι
[… ? lines lost …]
[v]
Ἡρακλείδει.Translations (1)
[recto]
Ptolemaios to Herakleides, greetings. If you are well and the things you are taking care of and everything else is going as it should for you, it would be as I wish, and many thanks to the gods. I too am in good health.
[…]
you will do me a favour […]
[…]
[verso]
To Herakleides.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 8228 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.hib;1;79 tier-1
- HGV-Text 8228 tier-1
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