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Letter from Aphrodisios to Sempronios about a child and household matters TM 25641unbekanntI - II

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A private letter from Aphrodisios to Sempronios, dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD. It concerns a child, a woman who failed to come to the house and showed signs of a break, rent due up to Phamenoth, and a request to pay a small sum of money, ending with greetings.

In English machine translation

Aphrodisios to the most honoured Sempronios, very many greetings. You wrote to me about the child as if not knowing that […] is […], and after securing the […] that she has received […] after which to carry it away from her […] to you from then on whatever you wish […] […] […] for no occasion alone(?). You did well in remembering them, and you saw that neither am I to blame; and I have also given […] […] and […] did not go out, but if it goes out I can quickly come to you. So please do as you were doing and attend to our […] […] to do the same […] of the rent, that until Phamenoth […] […] rent, and find out […] having contracted for it, and let me know quickly. Of necessity I received from […] 20(?). And why did she, having come according to custom, not come into the house, but showed the beginning of a split? So please, if you find an opportunity, pay the small change, so that neither, if anyone brings you the sealed(?) […] […] to them. I greet the […] and […] and his wife […] greets you all by name, and all of us greet you. I pray for your health.

Many lines are damaged, so the details of the affairs discussed are uncertain. The word read as 'diaschismos' (split, rupture) may refer to a quarrel or separation within the household.

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 · I - II

Ἀφροδείσιος Σεμπρωνίῳ τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ τοῦ παιδίου ὡς μὴ εἰδὼς ὅτι …[…]…μα ἐστὶν καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀσφαλίσασθαι τὴν …[…] εἰληφέναι αὐτὴν ……[…] μεθʼ ἃ αὐτὸ βαστάξαι ἀπʼ αὐτῆς[…] σοι ἔκτοτε ὅτι ἂν θέλῃς ἀ…[…] ἡμ…[…]…[…] τον ἐπερη…α……[…]μοιος οκ…[…] πρὸς καιρ…