no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.michael.39 IV - VII
Private letter via HGV-meta
Letter about an estate and an ailing mother who reproaches her absent son. A Christian private letter, poorly written and partly damaged, telling the recipient about matters concerning his estate and reeds on its east side. It urges him to come because his mother is ill and says she wants to die, reproaches him for having gone away and left his wife, and asks him to write a short note. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 33541.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Private letter HGV-meta unbekanntIV - VII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
† πρὸ μὲν πάντων τῆς ἐπιστολῆς[…]
γραφων καὶ ἀσπάζομαι Ἀπολ[…] ἐγρα[…]
υἱὸς Ἰσοδωριανοῦ ἐγὼ γράφω […]
ερεμιαις διὰ τὸ χωρίον ὑμῶν φημὶ τὸ
χωρίον καὶ τὸ καλάμους ν ει[…]
ἀπηλιώτῃ τοῦ χωρίου σου ηρ…[…]
μεν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου σου ἐγὼ γράφω ἀδελφοί σου προσκυν…
σοι εδεω ἡ μήτηρ σου
ἀσθενεῖ ἀποθανεῖν θέλει
ἐὰν δυνάσθῃς σύ βαλλε
…ινοψεσουσωπου ἡ
μήτηρ σου εἶπεν ἀποθανεῖν
θέλειν οπιτασηρκεναν […]ι
ησοφ ἐκ τοῦ μέρους σου ὅτι
ἀπῆλθες ἀφῆκας τὴν
γυναῖκα σου ηδετιενει εἰς τὴν
ψυχήν σου γράψον αὐτο
ις μικρὸν χαρτίον ☧
† † † † ☧Translations (1)
† Before all else, [at the beginning] of the letter […] writing, and I greet Apol[…] […] son of Isidorianos (?). I write […] […] because of your (plural) estate, I mean the estate, and the reeds 50 (?) […] on the east side of your estate […] from your estate. I write: your brothers make obeisance […] to you […]. Your mother is ill; she wants to die. If you can, come (?) […] your face (?). Your mother said that she wants to die […] on your part, because you went away and left your wife […] on your soul. Write them a little note. ☧
† † † † ☧
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33541 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.michael;;39 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33541 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 33541 (see that record)