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Letter from Apollonia to Philetos about yarn for a garment TM 26937Oxyrhynchites (?)II

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A private letter from Apollonia to Philetos sending, via Onnophris the younger, weft and warp yarn for a garment for Herakleides, with a detailed account of weights, prices and spinning costs. It dates to the 2nd century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

Apollonia to Philetos, greetings. I greet you warmly, and Herakleides. I have sent you through Onnophris the younger the materials for Herakleides' garment: of weft, 7 minas, by weight [...] staters [...], which are 110 bobbins (?); and warp from Lykopolis, by weight 90 staters, which are 75 balls. Of these, the price of the warp at 21 drachmas for 30 staters by weight comes to 63 drachmas, and the price of the wool of the weft 36 drachmas. There has been spent (?) on spinning, by weight, 30 staters, [...] per stater, and I from my own supply gave 10 staters by weight of wool; for the cost of the finishing (?) 4 drachmas. I have given out three minas to be spun at 1 obol per stater by weight, making 17 drachmas 5 obols, and I myself spun the other four minas and put into them black colored cord; and of these put three minas into the cloak (abolla) of the garment. We greet you warmly. Farewell. The warp has been soaked at my house. Year [...], Thoth. [verso] Deliver to Philetos, for Herakleides.

The abolla was a type of woollen cloak; weights are given in minas and staters. Some phrases about spinning costs are obscure and the translation there is tentative.

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 Apollonia). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.31.2593

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

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