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p.nyu.2.20 II - IIIOxyrhynchites (?)

Letter to Tetseiris via HGV-meta

Letter to Tetseiris with greetings from her family and workshop. Fragmentary private letter addressed to a woman named Tetseiris, called 'sister', sending greetings from her son Melistanos, her mother Aphrodeisia and others, including all the women of a workshop, and urging her to return quickly. It dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD and probably comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἀπέσχον δὲ αὐτὴν[…] ὥστε ἐπὶ Νεῖλον αὐτῇ ἀπολογουμένῃ[…]ινίω ἡ μήτηρ σου εὐχαριστεῖ. Ἀσπαζεταί σε Μελίστανος ὁ υἱὸς σου καὶ Μυρισμὸς καὶ ἡ μήτηρ σου Ἀφροδεισία καὶ Ἑρμεῖνος καὶ Κιχόις καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ἐν τῷ ἐργαστηρίῳ. Ἄσπασαι Μύρωνα. πάντα ποίησον ὥστε ἐξελθεῖν ἐν τάχει. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, ἀδελφή. [v] ἀπόδος Τετσεῖρι … ἀπὸ[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [...] and I kept her away [...] so that to Nilos, when she was making her defence (?), [...] your mother is grateful. Greetings to you from Melistanos your son and Myrismos and your mother Aphrodeisia and Hermeinos and Kichois and all the women in the workshop. Greet Myron. Do everything so as to come away quickly. I pray for your health, sister. [verso] Deliver to Tetseiris ... from [...]

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchites

Cross-references (3)

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