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Private Letter via APIS-papyrus

Business letter about cloth, purple dye and a journey to Rome. Fragment of a private business letter, possibly connected with Apollinarius, discussing loans, cloth being finished and fulled, purple dye at the dye-works, items left with Philetos, and the writer's itinerary through Syria, Asia and Achaia to Rome. It also mentions jars from Massalia, the god Sarapis and voyages from Rome to Alexandria. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]…στα…[…]… […]…τησαι…ης […]…[…]ντα πανκάκως […]…[…]…μη αὐτ[…] ὁ ἀδελφὸς[…]…[…] Ἰουλιανὸς γενόμενος […]αβων αὐτοῦ πολλὰ δάνεια […]…εσθαι …[…]. ἐὰν οὖν ἐργασίαν […]θω τὸ σὸν ἐκπράξαι ὑπὲρ […]…[…]…[…]οτι …λως ὠνησόμεθα. τὴν μέντοι γε χάριν αὐτῶν θεωρήσωμεν ὅταν ἀπαρτισθῇ τὰ ἔργα καὶ γναφῶσιν. ὑπὲρ τῆς πορφύρας οὐδὲν δύναμαί σοι γράφειν ἄχρι οὗ ἐκ τοῦ βαφείου ἐξέλθῃ, ὑπὲρ ἧς ἄν τι τάχιον ἐπιγνῶ δηλώσω σοι. καὶ ἐν ταῖς διὰ Αὐρηλιανοῦ ἐπιστολαῖς ἔγραψά σοι λαβεῖν τέσσαρα …ρ…[…]…τιανὰ ἀπὸ Φιλήτου ἃ παρʼ αὐτῷ κατέλιπον, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲν ἔλασσον καὶ αὐτῷ ὑπὲρ τούτου ἔγραψα καὶ τὸ … ἰτινερᾶριν ὁ ἐποίησα διὰ Συρίας Ἀσίας Ἀχαίας μέχρι Ῥώμης. ἐὰν ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἔρχῃ, λαγύνους Μασσαλιτανὰς […]…… μοι ἵνα εἰς τὰς εὐνοίας τοῦ κυρίου Σαράπιδος[…]……υ…ρθω…[…]παρών σοι ἐλάλησα […]… τῆς οἰκίας μου παράκειταί σοι καί τινα[…]αν σοι ἔγραψα τῆς οἰκίας μου καὶ νῦν ταύτῃ […]… ὑπέταξα. καὶ καθὼς γράφεις ταξίδια […]ἐκπλέξαι ἀπὸ Ῥώμης εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐνγυ [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] […] […] […] […] […] in every bad way […] […] him […] the brother […] Julianus having become […] having taken (?) many loans of his […] […]. So if work […] to exact what is yours on behalf of […] […] we shall buy […]. However, let us see what they are worth when the pieces are finished and fulled. About the purple I can write you nothing until it comes out of the dye-works; if I learn anything about it sooner, I will let you know. And in the letters sent through Aurelianus I wrote to you to get four […] from Philetos, which I left with him, but nonetheless I also wrote to him about this, and the […] itinerary which I made through Syria, Asia, Achaia as far as Rome. If you come to Alexandria, with good fortune, […] Massaliot jars […] me, so that into the favour of the lord Sarapis […] when present I spoke to you […] of my house is at your disposal, and some […] I wrote to you of my house, and now to this […] I appended. And as you write, journeys […] to sail out from Rome to Alexandria […] [… ? lines lost …]

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