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p.mich.3.212 II - III
Private Letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Dorion to his son Serenus about food sent by Theon. A private letter from Dorion to his son Serenus, telling him he has sent baskets of bread and a small basket of cheeses and parsley roots with Theon, asking for news, and passing on greetings from the family. A postscript mentions that a certain Eutyches is causing trouble about the old tower of the house. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. machine translation
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TM 28801.
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- Private Letter APIS-papyrus UnknownIInd century or early IIIrd century A.D.
- Letter of Dorion to Serenus HGV-meta unbekanntII - III
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,ctr]
[…]ελ Φαρμοῦθι ιε.
Δωρίων Σερήνῳ τῶι γλυκυτάτῳ υἱῷ χαίρειν.
πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν
καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς πατρῴοις ἡμῶν θεοῖς εὐχόμενος περὶ σοῦ τὰ κάλλιστα. μικρόν τι ἔπεμψά σοι διὰ Θέωνος
κόϊκα ἄρτων καὶ σφυρίδιον ἐν ᾧ τυρία καὶ
σκωρσελήνης ὡς ἡ ἐπιστολὴ περιέχει. γράφε μοι, κύριε, σὺν τοῖς ἑτέροις περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου καὶ περὶ ὧν χρῄζεις ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ.
ἄσπασαι ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὸν γλυκύτατον Ἰσίδωρον.
ἀσπάζεταί σε ἡ μήτηρ σου Θάις καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί σου
Ἡρακλῆς καὶ Ἀντωνία ἡ καὶ Μοδέστα καὶ
πάντες οἱ ἐν οἴκῳ.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριε τέκνον.
Φαρμοῦθι ιβ.
[r,ms]
περὶ τοῦ παλαιοῦ πύργου τῆς οἰκίας φθάνει
σοι γράψας Ἰούλιος ὅτι ὁ Εὐτύχης ἡμῖν
παρενοχλεῖ.
[v]
Σερήνῳ υἱῷ παρὰ Δωρίωνος πατρός.Translations (1)
[recto, top]
[…] Pharmouthi 15.
Dorion to Serenus, his sweetest son, greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health, and I make your obeisance before our ancestral gods, praying for the best things concerning you. I have sent you a little something through Theon: baskets of loaves and a small basket in which there are cheeses and parsley(?) roots, as the letter contains. Write to me, lord, with the others, about your well-being and about what you need from me. Greet from me the sweetest Isidoros. Your mother Thais greets you, and your brother and sister Herakles and Antonia also called Modesta, and all those in the house.
I pray for your health, lord son.
Pharmouthi 12.
[recto, margin]
Concerning the old tower of the house, Julius has already written to you that Eutyches is troubling us.
[verso]
To Serenus, his son, from Dorion, his father.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 28801 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;3;212 tier-1
- HGV-Text 28801 tier-1
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