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A private letter, its sender's and recipient's names lost, sent by a kydaros-boat sailing upriver, with greetings to family members including Soterichos, Tryphas, Herakleios and Mikkos. A postscript asks that some small loaves be sent on the boat. It is dated Hathyr 2 of year 25 of Caesar (Augustus), from the Herakleopolite nome.
A kydaros was a type of Nile cargo boat. The restoration 'do not talk nonsense' rests on only a few surviving letters and is uncertain.
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.
[…] πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ἐρρωμένωι ἄριστα ἐπανάγειν ὡς εὔχομαι· […]κυδάρου ἀναπλέοντος ἀναγκαῖον ἡγησάμην σε διʼ αὐτοῦ ἀσπάσασθαι· ἀσπάζου […]Σωτήριχον τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ Τρυφᾶν […] καὶ Ἡράκλειον τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὰ παιδάρια[…]ν καὶ τὸν Μικκὸν καὶ τοὺς ἐν οἴκωι πάντας· πρὸ τ…
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