Letter asking a patron's help after being denounced by a robber TM 11175Arsinoites

Fragment of a letter from the Arsinoite nome in which the writer reports that an arrested robber named many accomplices, including the addressee's workman Paulos and the writer's slave Drapetion, and implicated the writer himself. Now held under a soldier's guard, the writer begs the addressee, his lord, to come and help save him.

In English machine translation

The word read as rhoisasthai is probably a misspelling of rhysasthai, 'to rescue', so the sense of that sentence is uncertain. The sentence beginning 'We therefore' breaks off and restarts in the singular in the Greek.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di lettera). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.