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A private letter from Ptolemas to his brother Horis acknowledging receipt, via Sarapas, of a consignment of clothing, household goods and food, noting a missing mina of wool. He also asks for a garment to be sent to Tryphonas, and reports pawning white garments to buy grain and borrowing eight drachmas. It dates to the 2nd century AD, from Oxyrhynchus.
Several clothing terms (ephippion, synthesis, epikarsion, syria) have no exact English equivalent and are rendered approximately. The address on the back reads 'sister', which may imply the writer is a woman despite the name form.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Ptolemaeus to Horis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Πτολεμᾶς Ὡρεῖτι τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. ἐκομισάμην ἐφίππια παρὰ Σαραπᾶτος καὶ σύνθεσιν σπανὴν ἡμιτριβῆ τεθεραπευμένην καὶ ἐπικάρσιον ὁμοίως ἡμιτριβῆ καὶ τῷ παιδί μου κούκκολον πορφυροῦν ἄγναφον καὶ ἄλλο χιτώνιον ζμαράγδινον πάντα ἐν εἰλήματι καινῷ λεντίῳ καὶ κανίσκιον ὑελοῦν καὶ κ…
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