Fragment of a private letter whose writer mentions the addressee's wish to stay one more day and hopes for his quick and fortunate departure. It closes with greetings to and from Dioskoras, Eudaimonis, little Heraidous and Apollonios, and is dated Epeiph 24; it probably comes from Hermopolis.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] on behalf of
Dioskoras […] and you wished to stay with me one more day […], so that you might also depart quickly and with good fortune, as is our prayer. Greet Dioskoras and my lady Eudaimonis. Little Heraidous greets you, and the other Eudaimonis and her mother. Greet also the most excellent Apollonios.
Farewell, my lord. Epeiph 24.
The opening of the letter is lost, so the writer and addressee are unknown. Apollonios is called kratistos, an honorific usually given to high-ranking officials.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein Brieffragment). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.