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Letter from Teeus to Aline thanking her for a tunic TM 19466Apollonopolites Heptakomias113 - 120 (?)
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A private letter from Teeus to Aline, the wife of the strategos Apollonios, thanking her for sending a tunic and conveying greetings from Heraidous. It dates to about AD 113-120 and comes from the archive of Apollonios in the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Teeus to Aline her lady, greetings.
Before all else Heraidous greets you, and I greet all your people. When [...] arrived here to us [...] myself, when I lack (?) [...] happened, then I learned that you had sent me the tunic. I will give you great thanks before all the gods, because you have clothed me. May it be granted to me to greet you in good fortune, having a male child (?), and [...] having been urged (?) [...] through Ch[...] to Amounis. Be assured (?) that I am devoted to you, and if you are going to give me anything [...] a small dish (?) [...] in my place, and send me what you have.
Farewell, lady.
Hathyr 23.
[verso]
[Deliver to Aline.]
Teeus, perhaps Apollonios' mother or a family member, writes affectionately to Aline; the middle of the letter is badly damaged and the translation there is tentative. The wish 'having a male child' rests partly on restoration.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Briefe der Teeus an Aline). 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.15
[r] Τεεὺς Ἀλινῇ τῇ κυρίᾳ χαίρειν. πρὸ πάντων σε ἀσπάζεται Ἡραιδοῦς καὶ ἀσπάζομαι πάντας τοὺς σούς. ὅτε δὲ παρεγένοντο ἐντάδε ἡμῖν ο[…]ηωτ[…] ἐμαυτῆς, ὅτε λείπω τ[…]της γέγονε, τότε ἔγνων, ὅτι ἔπεμψάς μοι τὸν κιθῶναν. λείαν δέ σοι εὐχαριστήσω παρὰ πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς, ὅτι σύ με ἐνδέδυ…