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p.oxy.20.2273 spätes IIIHermopolites (?)

Letter to Theonis via HGV-meta

Letter to her mother Theonis about oil, figs, purple dye and clothing. A private letter from a woman living away from home to her mother Theonis and brother Askl[…]. She sends oil bought for 600 drachmas, dried figs and purple dye for making tunics and cloaks, and asks for clothing and linen to be sent to her and for news of what others delivered. Late 3rd century AD, probably from the Hermopolite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[FrA,r,ctr] τῇ κυρίᾳ μου μητρὶ Θεωνίδι καὶ τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀσκλη[…]χαίρειν. πρό γε πάντων εὔχομαι ὑμᾶς ὑγιαίνειν παρὰ τοῖς ἐπιξενοῦμαι θεοῖς[…]ηθην τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Πασίωνος …[…] διεπεμψάμην ὑμῖν καψάκιον ἐλαίου ἠγορακὼς δραχμῶν ἑξακοσίων ἀκήκοα γὰρ ὡς πολλοῦ ἐστιν παρʼ ὑμῖν τὸ ἔλαιον καὶ ταρσίκιον ἔχουσα καὶ ἐγὼ ἰσχάδια. δώσεις δὲ τῷ ἀδελφῷ μου Κορνηλιανῷ ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ρν. καὶ διούγκιον πορφύρας Βερενιγκησίας, ἵνʼ οὕτως, εἴ σοι δοκεῖ, ποιήσῃς τὰ χιτώνια καὶ δύο μαφόρτια. δελματίκιον δὲ τὸ ἐμὸν π[…]…[…]…[…]ο[…]δε σοι γενέσθω πέμψον μοι τὸ μαφόρτιόν μου τὸ κοράκινον καὶ τὸ ἀναβολάδιόν μου, καὶ τὸ ἄλλο μου ἱμάτιον ἐκτινάξῃς ἀσφαλῶς μὴ σαπῇ· πέμψω δὲ σοὶ ἀργύριον ἐὰν ἀντιπέμψῃς μοι ἃ ἐποίησάς μοι ὀθονίδια. δήλωσον δέ μοι καὶ τὶ ἐκόμισας παρά τε Διοσκορίωνος καὶ παρὰ Ἰσιδώρου καὶ παρὰ Κάστορος ἤτοι Πολυδεύκους τοῦ ποτε προγομα…ιου, ἵνα γνῶ. κομίσου πάντα ὅσα ἐὰν ἀναπέμπω σοι […]ιβ[…]νο…[…]υν δε…[…]…α [FrB] […]λ…[…] […]…αλλα…ος…[…]…σοιν […] μέχρι το…θεν παρεκο[…]ἐν ὁλοκληρίᾳ ων καὶ ἡμεῖς εὐκρινοῦμεν. πολλὰ ἄσπασαι τὸν ἀξιολογώτατον κύριόν μου πατέρα Σιλβανὸν σὺν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ ὅλῳ καὶ[…]αρηφαν[…]λειν. καὶ τὴν σύμβιον αὐτοῦ[…] καὶ τὸν[…] εξετ[…]τὸ ἀναμ[…] στειλα[…]ηττερον […] […]…[…] [FrA,r,ms] ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς πολλοῖς χρόνοις εὐτυχοῦντας καὶ […]…[…] […]… καὶ ἑκάστῳ τὰ συνδεδεμένα γράμματα[…] [FrA,v] κυρίᾳ μου μητρὶ Θεωνίδι

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[Fragment A, recto, centre] To my lady mother Theonis and to my lord brother Askl[…], greeting. Before all else I pray that you are in good health before the gods with whom I am staying as a guest […] of brother Pasion […] I have sent you a basket of oil, having bought it for 600 drachmas, for I have heard that oil is dear where you are; and a small basket containing dried figs too. You will give 150 of them to my brother Cornelianus. And two ounces of Berenikian purple, so that, if you think fit, you may make the tunics and two cloaks (maphortia). My dalmatic […] let it be […] for you. Send me my raven-black cloak and my mantle, and shake out my other garment carefully so that it does not rot. I will send you money if you send me in return the linen cloths you made for me. Let me know also what you received from Dioskorion and from Isidoros and from Kastor also called Polydeukes, the former […], so that I may know. Receive everything that I send up to you […] [Fragment B] […] until […] in full health […] and we too are well. Greet warmly my most esteemed lord father Silvanus with his whole household and […] and his wife […] and […] [Fragment A, recto, margin] I pray for your health for many years, prospering and […] and to each the letters bound together […] [Fragment A, verso] To my lady mother Theonis

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