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Letter from Paniskos to his wife Ploutogenia about a talent and her brother TM 21350Koptos, Coptite nome, province of EgyptSeptember 9, 296 or 297 A.D.

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A private letter from Paniskos to his wife Ploutogenia about the payment of a talent through a certain Dioskoros. He reports that her brother Hermeias is with the prefect on the other side and refused to come over to the corrector Achilleus, while most of their 19 colleagues have joined Paniskos' side. Written at Koptos in September 297.

In English machine translation

[recto] Paniskos to Protogenia (Ploutogenia), his wife, very many greetings. I want you to know that I gave a letter to Dioskoros when he came from me, a second one; and now I write to you that I have not given him the talent, but he is paying it out. So receive the talent from his own people. And I have sent you his receipt (?) for the talent, so that you may take it, as I said before. Hermeias your brother is on the other side with the prefect. Many times we called out to him to come to the corrector Achilleus, and he did not come. Most of our 19 colleagues have come over to us. I greet you all, Heliodora my daughter, and all our people. Thoth 12. [verso] [… 1 line lost …] To Protogenia

The context is the revolt of Domitius Domitianus, whose corrector Achilleus Paniskos seems to serve, while Hermeias sided with the prefect loyal to the Tetrarchs. The wife's name is spelled Protogenia in the text but is usually given as Ploutogenia; one record dates the letter to 296 or 297.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Paniskos to Ploutogenia). 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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Private Letter

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 1369 · September 9, 296 or 297 A.D. · Koptos, Coptite nome, province of Egypt

Letter sent by Paniskos to his wife Ploutogenia, whose brother Hermias might have been on the side of the Tetrarchs and of the prefect of Egypt against the usurper L. Domitius Domitianus and his corrector Achilleus, for whom Paniskos seems to have been serving

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p.mich.3.220

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 9. Sept. 297 · Koptos

[r] Πανίσκος Προτογενίᾳ τῇ συνβίῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. γινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι ἐπιστολὴν ἔδωκα Διοσκόρῳ ὡς αὐτοῦ ἐλθόντος παρʼ ἐμοῦ, δεύτερον νῦν δέ σοι γράφω ὅτι οὐ δέδωκα αὐτῷ τὸ τάλαντον ἀλλὰ ἐκτίθησι. δέξαι οὖν παρὰ τῶν ἰδίων αὐτοῦ τὸ τάλαντον. καὶ διεπεμψάμην σοι αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπιθήκη…