no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.michael.38 VI
Private letter via HGV-meta
Letter arranging a tunic-cloak on credit from the clothes-dealer Julianus. A private letter of the 6th century AD replying to a correspondent addressed as "your Splendour" about a tunic-cloak needed by a woman and expenses for the display of official dignities. The writer says he has written to Julianus, a clothes-dealer, asking him to supply the garment on credit until the writer returns home. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 37343.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Private letter HGV-meta unbekanntVI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
…εξ…ν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τῆς σῆς ποθεινῆς λαμπρότητος, διʼ ἧς ε[…]…[…]
[…] αὐτῇ στιχαροφαιλόνιον εἰς χρείαν αὐτῆς διὰ τὴν τῶν ἀξιωμάτων ο[…]…
[…]… οἶδεν ὁ δεσπότης χειμονικὸν φαιλόνιον περισσὸν οὐ κερατι[…]
……πληροῦν· ἐὰν δὲ ὡς ἔγραψεν ἡ σὴ λαμπρότης πρὶν ἂν …[…]
ἐδαπάνησεν εἰς τὴν ἐμφανείαν τῶν ἀξιωμάτων, εὑρίσκω ὅτι πάση[…]
ἐρώτευσεν ἐπεί τʼ οἱ γεο…εις ἐμφανισασ[…]ν[…]ε ἀξιώματα πλε[…]
καὶ ἴδιον ἐδαπάνησεν …ενόμενος θειο…[…]… περὶ ερ…[…]
τοῦ Θεου τέλειος, εἰ καὶ δύνασαι τὰ αὐτὰ σεαυτὸν διοικη ……ως……
μη δοξον μηδὲ εἰς τοῦτό σε λυπεῖν· ἰδοὺ ἐποίησα ἐπιστολὴν πρὸς Ἰουλιανὸν
τὸν εὐδοκιμώτατον ἱματιοπράτην ἵνα δόσῃ σοι στιχαροφαιλόνιον καὶ πιστεύσῃ σοι
τὴν τιμὴν αὐτοῦ ἕως ὅτε σὺν Θεῷ γένωμαι κατὰ τὴν πατρίδα· καί πως ἵνα ὁ Θεὸς
οὕτω τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἐμὴν εὐτελείαν διοικήσῃ ἵνα δυνήθω τὰς πάντων ὑμῶν κελεύσεις
ἀποπληρῶσαι καὶ …[…]…περα…ειον χῶρον […]…[…]…οντος τοὺς δὲ χοίρους ὀν…
[… 1 line lost …]Translations (1)
[…] the letter of your longed-for Splendour, through which […]
[…] for her a sticharophailonion (tunic-cloak) for her use, because of the […] of the dignities […]
[…] the master knows a winter cloak, surplus, not […] carat(s) (?) […]
[…] to fulfil; but if, as your Splendour wrote, before […]
he spent for the display (?) of the dignities, I find that […]
he asked (?), since the […] having displayed […] dignities more […]
and he spent his own […] divine (?) […] concerning […]
of God perfect, even if you are able to manage the same things yourself […]
[…] and do not be grieved over this. See, I have written a letter to Julianus,
the most esteemed clothes-dealer, so that he may give you a sticharophailonion and trust you
for its price until, with God, I come to my home town; and somehow, so that God
may so arrange my humble affairs that I may be able to fulfil the orders of all of you
and […] place […] the pigs […]
[… 1 line lost …]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37343 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.michael;;38 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37343 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 37343 (see that record)