Small Fragments: Letters Written with the Fibers
End of a private letter
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1827
End of a private letter asking the recipient to provide for the writers TM 1827unbekannt261 BCE – 229 BCE
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The closing lines of a private Greek letter, in which the writer asks the recipient to look after them so that they lack nothing. The beginning is lost; it dates to the mid-3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[a]
[…]
For the rest, take care of us so that we lack nothing.
Farewell.
The farewell is in the plural ("errosthe"), suggesting the letter was addressed to more than one person.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Small Fragments: Letters Written with the Fibers). 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.col.4.114a
[a] [… ? lines lost …] κατὰ λοιπὰ σοὶ μελέτω περὶ ἡμῶν ὅπως μηθένος ὑστερῶμεν ἔρρωσθε