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p.mich.8.478 frühes IIAlexandria
Private Letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Claudius Terentianus to his father Tiberianus about illness and unrest. A private letter from Claudius Terentianus, a soldier, to his father Claudius Tiberianus, explaining that serious illness and a violent disturbance kept him confined to camp and unable to travel or write, and that he has recovered. It closes with greetings to his mother and requests; written probably at Alexandria in the early 2nd century AD. machine translation
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TM 27091.
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- Private Letter APIS-papyrus probably Alexandria, province of E(Early) IInd century A.D.
- Terentianus to Tiberianus HGV-meta Alexandriafrühes II
- Letter from Claudius Terentianus(?) to his father(?) APIS-papyrus Alexandriaearly 2nd century AD
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[ctr]
Κλαύδιος Τερεντιανὸς Κλαυδίῳ Τιβεριανῷ
τῷ πατρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν, ὅ μοι εὔκταῖόν ἐστιν, ὑγιαίνω δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιούμενος καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ
τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι καὶ τοῖς συννάοις θεοῖς. γινώσκειν
σε θέλω ὅτι ἐξέρχεσθαι τεταγμένος ἀπόντος σου
κατελθεῖν εἰς Νέαν Πόλιν πάντως οὐκ ἠδυνήθην τότε γὰρ τόσον ἐπηρεασμὸν τῆς νόσου μα[…]…τ[…]ς παρ[…]
…[…] ἀκόσμως, καὶ ἠδυνήθην ἡμέρας πέντε μηδέν σοι γράφειν, μήτιγε ἀναβῆναί σοι, οὐδὲ
τὴν πύλην τῆς παρεμβολῆς ἐξελθεῖν ἔσχηκέ
τις ἡμῶν. εὐχαριστῶ τῷ θεῷ ὅτι μετὰ τὰς πέντε ,
ἡμῶν ἡμέρας ἄλλας[…]θόρυβον τοσοῦτον, ἀφʼ οὗ σίνη ἔσχα, κ…[…]…[…] ἀνεῦρε
τοὺς τῶν νόμων παραβάτας[…] σέσωμαι
γινομένης μᾶλλον χάριτός σοι καταβεβηκότι. ἀφ[…]ν γὰρ[…]
διάγνωσιν […]κινδυνεύοντα […]
ἐὰν κα[…]…ει[…]
κ[…]μη… ἐὰν […]
ο[…]… ἅμα καὶ […]
[…]χάριν ἄλλην[…]
[…] ἀλλαχῇ τος[…]
στρατοπεδαρχ[…]
[…]εφ…υ…υ[…]
[…]ση[…]…[…]…[…]
…[…] τοῦ κυ[…]
[…]τῇ μητρί μου[…]
…[…]…σον τὸ επ[…]
[…]…[…]μ…δ…ησει[…]
…[…]…[…]αι…[…]
καὶ δηλαδὴ […]γινώσκειν σε
θέλω ὅτι […]ηρ…[…]…[…]
λας ἔτι ἀπόντος σου[…]…[…]
ρ…[…]… τὴν α…[…]ν μ[…]
ἡμέρας ἐστρατευ[…]αν…[…]ας
ἀπαιτοῦντος τὸν […] καὶ τὸν χαλκὸν ὡς
μηκέτι σὺν Ἀμ[…]ποιῆσαι. ἔδει δὲ μὴ
αἰτῇ ἃ ἀπηρτισμένα ἦν κατὰ τὴν ἀπογραφὴν
ε[…]ε…[…]ν…[…]ἄλλου νομικοῦ πέμψαι σοι αὐτὸ επ[…]…[…]αβου…[…] λοιπὸν
ἀντίγραψόν μοι καὶ περὶ[…]…ρας πῶς πράσσει.
ἄσπασαι τὴν μητέρα καὶ κυρίαν μου πολλὰ καὶ
ἐρεῖς αὐτῇ τοῖς […]…ι…[…]ς πέμψαι μοι
τὸ φοῦνδίν μου. τὴν δὲ[…]δε με[…]ον εἰς τὰ
μύρα […]…αιτ[…]…[…]ελ[…]…η[…]
[FrA]
[…]λλα[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]μηκ…[…]
[…]…[…]υτα[…]
[…]…[…]ε…[…]
[…]…ηστ[…]
[…]ομ…[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]μενατ[…]
[…]…[…]
[FrB]
[…]νο[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]λθε κ[…]
[…]ε ἀγγ[…]
[…]μενο[…]
[…]κ…π[…]
[…]υμε…[…]
[…]ε[…]…[…]Translations (1)
Claudius Terentianus to Claudius Tiberianus, his father and lord, very many greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health, which is my wish, and I myself am well, making obeisance for you every day before the lord Sarapis and the gods who share his temple. I want you to know that, although I had been ordered to go out while you were away, I was quite unable to go down to Neapolis; for at that time such an attack of illness […] in disorder (?), and I was able for five days to write nothing to you, let alone to come up to you, nor did any of us get out of the gate of the camp. I give thanks to god that after the five days of ours, other days […] so great a disturbance, from which I suffered harm, […] he found out the lawbreakers (?) […] I have been saved, a favour granted rather to you (?) having come down. For […] decision (?) […] being in danger […] if […] if […] at the same time also […] another favour […] elsewhere […] camp prefect (?) […] of the lord (?) […] to my mother […]
And clearly […] I want you to know that […] while you were still away […] days […] served (?) […] demanding the […] and the copper, so as no longer to do it with Am[…]. But he ought not to ask for things that were completed according to the registration […] of another lawyer to send it to you […] For the rest, write back to me also about […] how she is doing.
Greet my mother and lady warmly, and tell her […] to send me my purse (?). And the […] me […] for the perfumes […]
[Fragment A]
[…]
[Fragment B]
[…] came (?) […] message (?) […]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 27091 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;8;478 tier-1
- HGV-Text 27091 tier-1
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