One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 19469
Letter asking that pigeons and chickens be sent to Heraidous' teacher TM 19469Apollonopolites Heptakomias113 - 120 (?)
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Fragment of a private letter from the family archive of Apollonios, written by a woman (probably his mother or wife) conveying greetings from household members. She asks that pigeons and chickens be sent to the teacher of her daughter Heraidous, so that he will take pains over the girl's education.
In English machine translation
[…] brother […]
[…] your […]. Heraidous greets you, and Hemou[…] […]etes and Helene and Tinoutis and her papa and everyone in the house, and the mother of the sweetest Heraidous. The little pigeons and chicks, which I am not accustomed to eat, send […] to the teacher of Heraidous, whom Helene, the mother of Apollonios, urged to keep her son Hermaios in hand. Whatever I never ate from you […] (?), send to the teacher of my daughter, so that he may take pains over her.
I pray for your health.
Choiak 17.
The gifts of birds were evidently meant to encourage the teacher (kathegetes) to devote effort to Heraidous. The words after 'from you' are damaged and the restoration is uncertain.
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 Briefes, die Familie des Apollonios betreffend). 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.17
[…]…[…]… ἄδελφε[…] […]σου. ἀσπάζεταί σε Ἡραιδοῦς καὶ Ἡμου[…]…ήτης καὶ Ἑλένη καὶ Τινοῦτις καὶ ὁ πάπας αὐτῆς καὶ πάντες ἐν οἴκῳ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης Ἡραιδοῦτος. τὰ περιστερίδια καὶ ὀρνυθάρια, ἃ οὐκ ἤωθα ἔσθειν, πέμψον[…]…[…] τῷ καθηγητῇ Ἡραιδοῦτος, ὃν παρεκάλεσε Ἑλένη ἡ μήτηρ…