One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26817

Fragment of a letter about a draft, a receipt and a handwritten document TM 26817unbekanntAnfang II

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Fragment of a Greek private letter from the early 2nd century AD. The writer tells the addressee, who is travelling upriver, to write up a draft and a receipt as he wishes, mentions settling other outstanding affairs, and refers to children and a handwritten document.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] of the […] now you are going up. Write as you wish the draft and the receipt, so that the […] to the one who came to his own home, and I will arrange my other outstanding affairs, so that here I may greatly (?) [...] and serve […] to go up [recto, margin] […] children and Ma[…] […] about the handwritten document […] […] writes […] go to […]. Farewell. [verso] […] N[…]

The word typos here probably means a draft or model of a document. A cheirographon is a private handwritten contract or acknowledgement.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de lettre). 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.ifao.2.9

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Anfang II

[r] ω[…] τῶν …[…]ωνεω[…] νῦν ἀναβαίνεις. γράψον ὡς θέλεις τὸν τύπον καὶ τὴν ἀποχὴν ἵνα τὰ […]…θπ…κ… τῶι ἐλθόντι εἰς τὰ ἴδια καὶ οἰκονομήσω μου τὰ ἄλλα μετέωρα ὅπως ἐνθάδε λείαν διατρέπω καὶ διακονῶ […]…ψο[…]επα…ι ἀνέρχεσθαι [r,ms] […]…ου παιδία καὶ Μα[…] […]ι περὶ τοῦ χειρογράφου…