One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19467
Letter from Aline to her mother Tetes about the sale of garments TM 19467Hermopolites113 - 120 (?)
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A private letter from Aline to her mother Tetes, acknowledging news about the sale of garments, asking her to see to remaining matters, and complaining that her little daughter Heraidous writes to her father without greeting her. It belongs to the archive of the strategos Apollonios in the Hermopolite nome, early 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Aline to Tetes her mother, greetings.
You informed me about the sale of the garments. You will do well to act also about the remaining matters. I am convinced that I have taken away your […], but necessarily, as you know, and because of the […], until, for the good, it was […] secured (?).
My little Heraidous, when writing to her father, does not send greetings to me, and why, I do not know.
[I pray for your health.]
[verso]
To Tetes, her mother.
Aline was the wife of the strategos Apollonios; the damaged middle lines are uncertain, so the reason she took something from her mother remains unclear.
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 Tetes). 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.16
[r] Ἀλινὴ Τετῆτι τῆι μητρὶ χαίρειν. περὶ τῆς πράσεως τῶν ἱματίων ἐδήλωσάς μοι. καλῶς δὲ ποιήσεις καὶ περὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἐνεργήσασα. πέπεισμαι ὅτι […]νευν σου ἀπέσπακα, ἀναγκαίως δὲ ὡς οἶδας καὶ διὰ τὸν […]εικιον, ἕως ἂν ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ πο…ως ε[…]ρεώθη. ἡ μικρά μου Ἡραιδοῦς γράφουσα τῶι πατρ…