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A private letter from a man whose name ends in -oses to his sister Isis, written in the 1st century AD. He asks whether she has received money and instructs her to send someone named Rome to Psennyris that day, the 22nd, arranges a hiring for the 23rd, mentions Kollouthos, and announces his own arrival.
The Greek is ungrammatical in places, and the opening instruction is hard to construe; 'Rome' is probably a personal name. 'Sister' may be a term of affection for a wife or close associate rather than a sibling.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre à Isis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]οσης Ἴσιδι τῇ ἀδελφῇ πολλὰ χαίρειν ἔσταλμαι σε ποιῆσαι ἠ εἴληφας τὸ ἀργυριον. ἀπόστειλον Ῥώμην εἰς Ψεννῦριν σήμερον ἥ ἐστι ἡ ββ ἵνα μισθώσῃς ε…στ[…] αὐθημερὸν εἰς τὴν κγ … Κολλούθῳ ὅρα μὴ κολάσῃ. καταντῶ γὰρ ἐγὼ ε[…] […]ρον τῇ κγ … … παρακάλεσον α[…] αὐτὸν ἐὰν δύνηται καταβῆνα…
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