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Letter from Euomenos and Dionysios to their brother Athenodoros TM 23357Herakleopolites

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A fragmentary private letter from Euomenos and Dionysios to their brother Athenodoros, mentioning the share belonging to the children of Dionysios and asking a favour if it is not burdensome. It comes from the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Euomenos and Dionysios to Athenodoros their brother, very many greetings and good health. Concerning the matters about which we wrote to you, for the present (?) the share of the children of Dionysios […] We have learned of raised (?) streams (?). If then it is not burdensome for you to do these things, and to let logs (?) […] … that we have taken possession (?). Please, therefore, administrator (?), […] […] … […] […] [verso] To Athenodoros his brother.

The sense of 'raised streams' (rhoai, possibly also 'pomegranates') and 'logs' (kormoi) is uncertain; 'brother' may be a courtesy term rather than a kinship term.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). 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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bgu.16.2633

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Herakleopolites

[r] Εὐόμενος καὶ Διονύσιος Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν· ὑπὲρ ὧν σοι ἐπεγράψαμεν εἰς τὰ νῦν ἡ μερὶς τῶν παιδίων Διονυσίου […] μετελάβομεν δὲ μεμετεωρισμένας ῥοάς· εἰ οὖν ἔστιν σοι ἀβαρὲς ποιῆσαι αὐτά, καὶ ἐᾶν κορμοὺς[…] μονος ἡμᾶς κατειληφέναι· εὖ οὖν ποιή…