Letter from Sosibios to his brother Archias about payments and sowing TM 14433Arsinoites (?)

A private business letter from Sosibios to his brother Archias, probably from the Arsinoite nome in the Ptolemaic period. He deals with payments in copper drachmas for three teams of oxen and provisions, tells Archias to sow on Hathyr 2, and announces that he is coming down himself.

In English machine translation

Copper drachma sums suggest a Ptolemaic date (3rd-2nd century BC). The phrase 'before the Elis' is obscure and may refer to a person or event; the sowing date of Hathyr 2 is oddly earlier than the letter's own date of Hathyr 30, perhaps meaning the following month or year.

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