One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 121969
Letter to Tetseiris with greetings from her family and workshop TM 121969From: unknown (Oxyrhynchite nome?)II or III CE
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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.
In English machine translation
[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 [...]
The beginning of the letter is lost, so the matter concerning Nilos is unclear. The greetings from 'all the women in the workshop' suggest a workshop employing women, perhaps in textile work.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Tetseiris). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.nyu.2.20
[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 ἐξελθεῖ…