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Letter from Sarapion to the epistates Athenodoros about health and wool TM 23361Herakleopolites3 - 2 v.Chr.

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A private letter from Sarapion to Athenodoros, an official (epistates), sent with a certain Strabo, urging him to look after his health, mentioning someone undergoing surgery, promising news, and asking him to send some wool. It dates to year 28 of Augustus (3-2 BC) and comes from the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Sarapion to Athenodoros, very many greetings and good health. I thought it necessary, since Strabo is coming to you […], to greet you and to urge you to take care of your health above all. […] I also thought I should further explain to you […] wrote […] in addition to undergoing surgery (?) […] will recover […]. Know that I am also attending to this, so that if anything new should happen, I will not fail to let you know. Concerning the little wools (?) […] hurry to send them to me, so that I may be obliged […]. For the rest, farewell. Year 28 of Caesar, […] 5. [verso] To Athenodoros the epistates.

The epistates was a local supervisory official. The middle passage about surgery is badly damaged, so who was being operated on is unclear.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.16.2637

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 3 - 2 v.Chr. · Herakleopolites

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