bgu.3.949
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρᾷ Ἀφοῦς καὶ Ἀννεοῦς. ἐπειδὴ τὸ σύνολον οὐχ ὑπάρχει ἰχθὺς ἐν Πάπᾳ καὶ ἐπὶ ξένης ἐσμὲν, σπούδασον, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε, δελφάκιον ἀποστεῖλαι ἡμῖν[…] ἵνα εὕρωμεν[…] …φαγεῖν απ…[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20094
Letter from Aphous and Anneous to Heras asking for a piglet TM 20094Herakleopolisca. 300
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A private letter from Aphous and Anneous to their "brother" Heras. Because there is no fish at all in Papa and they are away from home, they urge him to send them a piglet so they will have something to eat. It dates to about AD 300 and is attributed to Herakleopolis.
In English machine translation
To my lord brother Heras, Aphous and Anneous.
Since there is no fish at all in Papa and we are abroad, make haste, my lord brother, to send us a piglet […] so that we may find (?) […] to eat […]
[…]
[… lines lost …]
Papa was a village in the Herakleopolite nome; "brother" may be a courtesy form of address rather than a literal kinship term. The end of the letter is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ein Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.