One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 25461
Double letter to Teoubais from her sibling and from Temis TM 25461Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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A double letter addressed to a woman named Teoubais: the first writer, whose name is lost, calls her sister and reproaches her for not writing about her health; the second, Temis, writes to her as mother, sends greetings and mentions receiving two staters connected with an Ammonas. It comes from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome in Upper Egypt.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…] to Teoubais, her (?) sister, very many greetings. I greet you warmly and make obeisance for you before the gods.
I blame you because you have not written to me about your health. So send me word about your health, so that I too may be happy.
Temis to Teoubais her mother […], greetings.
I greet you warmly and make obeisance for you before all the gods. Teoubais, send me word about your health. They have given me two staters […] to Ammonas […]
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about your health […]
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[verso]
Deliver to Teoubais.
The 'proskynema' formula refers to making an act of worship on the recipient's behalf before the gods. The end of the second letter is too damaged to translate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Doppelbrief an Teubais). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.giss.apoll.19
[r] […]Τεουβαῖτι τῇ ἀδελφῇ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. ἀσπάζομαί σε πολλὰ καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶι παρὰ τοῖς θεοῖς. μέμφομαί σε ὅτι οὐ γέγραφάς μοι περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου. πέμψον μοι οὖν περὶ τῆς σωτηρίαςσου, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ εὐτυχήσω. Τέμις Τεουβαῖτι τῆι μητρὶ … χαίρειν. ἀσπάζομαί σε πολλὰ κα…