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Fragment of a private letter TM 26819unbekanntII

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Small fragment of a private Greek letter from Roman Egypt, 2nd century AD. Only broken phrases survive, mentioning the writer's fears, a choenix measure, and a request that someone take care of the addressee; the verso ends with the start of an address ('Deliver to').

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] […] […] from the beginning […] […] you not at all […] […] and to abandon (?) […] […] in the same through […] […] standing, and so that […] […] I shall […] not […] and I fear lest […] […] of one (?) it may happen […] know that […]tonikos, whose […] […] (they) […] me of another […] […]phemos, who is […] […] that (they) benefit (?) […] […] through […] [verso] […] a choenix […] […] the whole […] […] let him take care for you […] […] for there is […] Deliver […]

A choenix is a small dry measure of grain, about a litre. The final 'Deliver' is probably the beginning of the external address.

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.2.14

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

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