Fragmentary letter with a request to buy a saffron-coloured linen cloth TM 17341unbekanntca. 400

Fragment of a Christian-era letter from about AD 400, apparently written by a woman, asking the recipient to buy items including a saffron-coloured linen cloth and mentioning a man named Theodoros. The address on the recipient's outer side survives only in part.

In English machine translation

The feminine reflexive 'myself' (emautēn) suggests the writer was a woman. The assarion was a small copper coin; the phrase about it is too damaged to interpret securely.

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