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p.lond.5.1789 VI
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Letter with greetings to Thekla and instructions about goods to be sold at a feast. A fragmentary private Christian letter of the 6th century AD in which the writer greets a motherly figure and his sister Thekla, asks the recipient to receive something connected with Kollouthos, and to keep certain items until the feast so he can sell them. He also asks for news of his mother and brother. machine translation
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TM 36950.
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
πρὸ μὲν πάντων πολλὰ προσαγορεύω τὴν σὴν μητρικὴν[…]
καὶ Θέκλαν τὴν ἐμὴν ἀδελφήν. καθὼς εἶπόν σοι ὅτι λ[…]
Κολλούθου θέλησον δέξασθαι αὐτὸ καὶ εἰ μὲν δέδωκας τὰ[…]
εὖ καὶ καλῶς· εἰ δὲ μήγε ἐάσον αὐτὰ ἕως τῆς ἑορτῆς ἵνα πωλήσω αὐτὰ […]
φάσιν περὶ τῆς μητρός μου καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου μάθω.
[v]
† ἐπίδος τῇ γλυκυτάτῃ μου[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
Before all else I greet warmly your motherly […] and Thekla my sister. As I told you that […] of Kollouthos, please receive it, and if you have given the […], well and good; but if not, leave them until the feast so that I may sell them […] news about my mother and my brother, (so that) I may learn.
[verso]
† Deliver to my sweetest […]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 36950 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;5;1789 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36950 tier-1
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