One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 15756

Fragment of a letter mentioning Sarapion, a receipt and wine TM 15756Oxyrhynchos

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Fragment of a private letter from Oxyrhynchus, apparently written by a woman, reporting that she found a certain Sarapion, obtained a receipt from him and sent it on to the addressee. It also mentions a letter, wine to be sent, and greetings or references to someone's sister and a man named Spartas.

In English machine translation

[…] immediately after going up I found Sarapion the […] I received from him the receipt and sent it to you […] gave (?) me the letter to the […] of the city (?). Immediately, then, to be sent through to you […] the wine […] […] his sister and Spartas and […]

The feminine participle (anabasa, "having gone up") shows the writer was a woman. The beginnings and ends of all lines are lost, so the connections between clauses are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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.oxy.46.3291

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Oxyrhynchos

εὐθέως ἀναβᾶσα εὗρον Σαραπίωνα τὸν …[…] παρέλαβον παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀποχὴν καὶ ἔπεμψά σοι […] κέν μοι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τὴν πρὸς τὸν κυν…[…]…ου[…] πόλεως. εὐθέως οὖν διαπεμφθῆναί σοι […] ὁ οἶνος του……[…]…δετη…[…] τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ Σπαρτᾶν καὶ …[…]