Letter from Aline to her husband Apollonios about wool and a shrine TM 19422Hermopolites113 - 120
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A private letter from Aline to her husband Apollonios, the strategos, whom she addresses as 'brother'. She asks what colour he wants for the wool she is to work, reports on the newly built shrine of the Dioskouroi on his estate and the offer of the statue-maker Areios to serve them for free if Apollonios writes to him, and says the children are well. It was written in the Hermopolite nome around AD 113-120.
In English machine translation
Aline calls Apollonios 'brother', a common affectionate term between spouses in Roman Egypt; he was her husband. The 'kōloplastēs' was a maker or keeper of cult statues.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief der Aline an ihren Gatten). 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.giss.1.20
p.giss.apoll.11
[r] Ἀλινὴ Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῶι ἀδελφῶι[…]χαίρειν. εὐχαριστοῦμεν πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς περὶ τῆς ὑγίας σου ὅτι σε καὶ ἀπο[…] ἡ ἐπιστολή σου τὴν […] που ἀπέστρεψεν […] μων. ἡ δὲ προέλευσις[…] ὥστε μηδὲν θεωρεῖσθαι[…] ἀηδῶς ἔχειν διὰ τὸ διαστ[…] γενόμενον μετὰ κισσον[…]ἔγραψας περὶ τῆς ὑγίας σου[…