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p.oslo.3.151 I - IIAlexandria (?)

Private Letter via HGV-meta

Letter from a son to his father about travel plans. A fragmentary private letter, apparently from a son to his father, written in the 1st or 2nd century AD, possibly at Alexandria. The writer asks to be told whether to sail downstream or upstream, mentions a loss connected with Neilopolis, and closes with daily prayers to Sarapis and greetings to Leon. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]τῶι πατρὶ […]χαίρειν […] […]…ντος δὲ τὰ ι[…]νου καταπλέω ἢ […]καταλαμβάνω σε δηλως[…]ἀναπλεύσω. καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις δηλώσας μοι καὶ τοῦτο[…]… ἢ δῷ αὐτὸν […]…ς. γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι[…]…νολινους ἀπολωλεκ[…]ταμίου ἐν τῇ Νείλου πόλει[…]ντων ἐμοῦ τε καὶ […] ἠρώτησέν σε βουλ[…]…[…]…[…]λίου τοῦ […]…υσ[…]ήσκειν […]μοι τελέσας περὶ […]πράγματος. τὸ δὲ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι. ἄσπασαι Λέωνακαὶ τοὺς φιλοῦντάς σε πάντας κατʼ ὄνομα[…]ων παρὰ τῶν γεωργ[…]…σε μ[…]…ους[…] […] […]…ηκες …τεγρ[…]…αιλ ματια […]……

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] to his father […] greeting. […] […] whether I sail down […] or […] I find you, let me know […] I shall sail up. Please therefore let me know this too […] or give him […]. I want you to know that […] lost […] of the treasury (?) in Neilopolis […] of me and […] asked you […] of […]lios […] to know […] having completed for me concerning the […] matter. I make obeisance for you every day before the lord Sarapis. Greet Leon and all who love you by name […] from the farmers […] […] […] […]

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Found at Alexandria

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