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Letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios TM 19645Hermopolis (?)113 - 120

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A fragmentary private letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios, opening with prayers for his safety and that of his household and later mentioning that a certain Diskas wrote about some matter. It dates to about AD 113-120 and probably comes from Hermopolis.

In English machine translation

Eudaimonis to Apollonios her son […], greetings. At every hour I pray […] for your safety and that of all your people and […] […] […] [… lines lost …] […] Diskas wrote about […] […] the little one (?) […] […]

Eudaimonis and her son Apollonios, a strategos of the Apollonopolite-Heptakomia district, are known from a large family archive of the early 2nd century. The reading 'the little one' 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 Brief der Eudaimonis an ihren Sohn 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 113 - 120 · Hermopolis (?)

[ctr] Εὐδαιμονὶς Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι υἱῶι […]χαίρειν. πάσηι ὥρᾳ εὔχομαι[…] ὑπέρ τε τῆς σωτηρίας σου καὶ τῶν σῶν πάντων καὶ […]ευ[…] […]…σιωνη[…] […]…ηω[…] [… ? lines lost …] [ms] ἔγραψε Δισκᾶς περὶ […] […]ἡμικρὰ […] […]…[…]