One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 26824

Fragmentary letter of Athene mentioning price and grain TM 26824unbekanntII

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Fragmentary private letter from (or to) a woman named Athene, acknowledging receipt of a letter and mentioning a price, grain, someone called Achill[…] and sawing. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] Athene […] […] greetings […] […] I received your little letter […] […] you (plural) judged (?) […] that […] […] is […] or good […] […] to us […] not the price of the […] […] to all the price secure […] […] grain […] […] the […] […] to Achill[…] […] […] sawing (?) […] […] to them […] [verso] […] […] from the three […] […] to make closed (?) […] […] fortunate […] […] to bring […] [… 5 lines lost …]

Only scattered phrases survive; it is unclear whether Athene is the sender or the addressee. The word 'prismos' usually means sawing, perhaps of timber or stone.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’Athene). 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.2.34

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

[r] […] Ἀθήνη τ…αῶπι[…] χαίρειν[…] […]ἐκομισάμην σου τὸ ἐπιστόλιον[…] […]ἐδοκιμάσατε … ὅτι …[…] […]ος ἐστιν […]…ν ἢ καλὸς […] […]δε απα[…]κη ἡμῖν […] οὐχ ἡ τιμὴ τῆς ς[…] […] πᾶσι τὴν τιμὴν ἀσφαλῆ[…] […]… σῖτον κ[…] […] τοὺς προ…[…] […] τῷ Ἀχιλλ[…] […]τα μεν […] […] πρισμὸν […] [……