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A private letter asking a 'brother' to have his people receive and not turn away a man named Hieronikes, who is travelling after a dispute over goods lost in a shipwreck, mentioning a place at Busiris. It is dated to 21 March 8 BC, in the reign of Augustus, from the Herakleopolite nome.
The word 'tosagale' is obscure and its meaning (perhaps a place name) is uncertain. The address on the back is only partly legible; the recipient may be Athas.
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.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] α…[…] πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν· δεόντως Ἱερονίκης εἰς τοσαγάλην πορεύεται διὰ τὸ μέμψασθαι αὐτῷ ἃ ἀπώλεσε ἐν τῆι ναυαγίᾳ· εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις, ἀδελφέ, γράψας τοῖς σοῖς ἵνα αὐτὸν εἰσδέξωνται, καὶ μὴ ἀπορίψῃς· ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃς τόπον ἐν τῷ σου α…ῳ ἐν Βο…
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