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Letter from Zoe to her brother Apollinarios at Pelusion TM 24886PelusionII - III

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A private letter from a woman named Zoe to her brother Apollinarios, written at Pelusion, about delivering written items to the wife of Acharis, recovering her own property and money owed through the epistrategos, and asking him to look after her house. She complains this is her third letter and says she is ill; the address mentions a camel-rider, Petronius.

In English machine translation

[recto] Zoe to Apollinarios her brother, greetings. I make obeisance for you before Zeus Kasios. I want you to know that I have found the wife of Acharis and have given her everything that was written, and I am waiting to receive my own things and to leave, and also the arrears (?) of Gemellus, so that I may demand them. I have found (them?) with a guardian, but they say that […] through the epistrategos that […] you can […] from the epistrategos and write to me with a guardian. The money is lying there, nothing yet. If I see that nothing has happened, I am leaving. Look, this is now the third letter I am writing to you. Look after my house, shake out the wool and the cloaks. You have all abandoned (?) Pelusion. I am ill. Serenus greets you, Petronis greets you and his sister and Hermione. Greet Charitous and her sister-in-law. Farewell. Phaophi 14. [verso] Deliver to Apollinarios from Petronius, dromedarius, from Pelusion.

Zeus Kasios was the god worshipped at Mount Kasion near Pelusion. A dromedarius was a soldier or courier mounted on a camel; the verb rendered 'abandoned' is obscure.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II - III · Pelusion

[r] Ζοὴ Ἀπολλιναρίῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημά σου παρὰ τῷ Δὶ τῷ Κασίῳ. γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω, ὅτι εὕρηκα τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Ἄχαρις καὶ δέδωκα αὐτῇ τὰ γεγραμμένα πάντα καὶ ἐγὼ προσδέχομαι τὰ ἐμαυτῆς λαβεῖν καὶ ἐξελθεῖν καὶ τὰ μετέωρα Γεμέλου, ἵνα ἀπαιτήσω εὕρηκα μετὰ κυρίoυ, ἀλλὰ…