Small Fragments: Letters Written across the Fibers
Fragment from the end of a letter with a date to a year ]6, i.e. the 26th or 36th of Philadelphos
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2326
Fragment from the end of a letter with a request TM 2326unbekannt261 BCE – 229 BCE
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Small fragment from the end of a Greek letter of the Ptolemaic period, containing a polite request and a closing date of Mesore 23 in a regnal year ending in 6. The year is probably the 26th or 36th of Ptolemy II Philadelphos.
In English machine translation
[…] You will do well if […] he brings (?) to us […] … if […] sail up (?) […]
[Farewell. Year] […]6, Mesore 23
Only the units digit of the regnal year survives. The phrase 'you will do well if' is the standard Greek formula for a polite request, equivalent to 'please'.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Small Fragments: Letters Written across the Fibers). 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.col.4.115t
[t] […]καν. καλῶς ποιήσεις ἐὰν […]καταστήσηι πρὸς ἡμᾶς […]ημας … εἰ ἀναπλευ[…]ἔρρωσο. ἔτους[…]ϛ Μεσορὴ κγ