One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19465
Letter from Lysimachos to Apollonios about clothing TM 19465Hermopolites (?)117 - 120
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Fragmentary private letter from Lysimachos to Apollonios listing items of clothing, white garments, dirty cloaks and hooded cloaks, and mentioning a linen garment found in the house. It sends greetings to Apollonios' sister (wife) Aline, the children and Heraklides. Part of the Apollonios archive, Hermopolite nome, AD 117-120.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
[…] of the same […] 1 pair of white garments, 2 dirty cloaks,
and likewise a white garment, 1 dirty cloak.
And 1 pair of hooded cloaks and 1 cloak of feathered(?) cloth.
You wrote to me about the linen garment, of the things that were found in the house. […] I greet you warmly, as do also Chairas and Herodes. I greet
Aline your sister and the children and
Heraklides, whom the evil eye spare, […]
of your clothes and […]
[…]
Farewell, lord.
Year […] of […] Caesar, […] Tybi.
[verso]
To Apollonios […] his brother, from Lysimachos.
The sender's name is only partly preserved and Lysimachos is a restoration. Aline, called 'sister', was Apollonios' wife and sister; the word rendered 'feathered(?) cloth' is obscure in the Greek.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment eines Schreibens des Lysi[machos?] an Apollonios). 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.apoll.28
[r] θ […]επ[…] δα[…]τοῦ αὐτοῦ […] ζεῦγοςστολῆς λευκῆς α, τρίβωνας ῥυπαρὰς β καὶ στολὴν ὁμοίως λευκὴν, τρίβωνα ῥυπαρὰν α. καὶ ζεῦγος βίρρου α καὶ πεπτεριονπανων τρίβωνα α. ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ ληίνης ὧν εὑρέθη ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ.[…] ἀσπάζομαί σε πολλά, ἴσως καὶ Χαιρᾶς καὶ Ἡρώδης. ἀσπάζομαι Ἀ…