Private Letter
Letter [probably from Claudius Terentianus to his father(?) Claudius Tiberianus], of uncertain content (similar to P.Mich. VIII, 471?)
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27083
Letter from Terentianus to Tiberianus TM 27083Alexandria (?)(Early) IInd century A.D.
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A badly damaged private letter in Latin, probably from the soldier Claudius Terentianus to Claudius Tiberianus, his father or patron. It mentions people coming and asking favours, a military belt, clothing including linen, a sum of 35 out of 100 denarii and 65 denarii held by someone, a discharge, and violence on the road.
In English machine translation
[…] […] […]
[…] […]rader […] and […]
[…] send (?) through […] and through Asullus
[…] came to him and began to ask him that
[…] in both (?) […] of him […] and
[…] came to him and […] a military belt
[…] Herakleides […] […] and […]
[…] I follow him and I come to him if […]
[…] days […] to curse both me and you
[…] […] with his brother
[…]biosus […] was helping; I say to him that as far as […]
[…] gold […] to me in clothing […]
[…] […] linen garment […]
[…] to me […] […] bronze
[…] […] given […] from […]
[…] my mother was born elsewhere […]
[…] says the father […] until he writes back to you
[…] or […] writes back to you and for the year
[…] and to go; I ask you, at Alexandria, that if anything
[…] if war (?) […] they come, lest […]
[…] while […] going to the discharge […] you will write back to me so that I may be free of care, and know that I […]
[…] to have, out of 100 denarii, 35 denarii; the rest
[…] for I came; he will tell you, I bought what you received from me
[…] about the matter he now has your 65 denarii, and know that I […]
[…] I would have killed on the road; if I had not killed, he wanted
[…] I pray for your good health.
Part of the archive of Claudius Tiberianus found at Karanis; 'father' may be a term of respect rather than literal kinship. The word read as 'war' is very uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Terentianus to Tiberianus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Letter
Letter [probably from Claudius Terentianus to his father(?)], of uncertain content
c.epist.lat.145
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