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.