Private Letter
Fragment of letter (from or to Apollinarius?), concerning the writer's journeys to Rome and back from Rome to Alexandria and some business he is making with his correspondent
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27111
Business letter about cloth, purple dye and a journey to Rome TM 27111perhaps Alexandria, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
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Fragment of a private business letter, possibly connected with Apollinarius, discussing loans, cloth being finished and fulled, purple dye at the dye-works, items left with Philetos, and the writer's itinerary through Syria, Asia and Achaia to Rome. It also mentions jars from Massalia, the god Sarapis and voyages from Rome to Alexandria.
In English machine translation
[…] […]
[…] […]
[…] […] in every bad way
[…] […] him […] the brother […] Julianus having become
[…] having taken (?) many loans of his
[…] […]. So if work
[…] to exact what is yours on behalf of
[…] […] we shall buy […].
However, let us see what they are worth when
the pieces are finished and fulled. About the purple I can write you nothing until it comes out of the
dye-works; if I learn anything about it sooner, I will let you know. And in the letters sent through Aurelianus
I wrote to you to get four […] from Philetos,
which I left with him, but nonetheless I also wrote to him
about this, and the […] itinerary which I made
through Syria, Asia, Achaia as far as Rome. If you come to Alexandria, with good fortune, […] Massaliot jars
[…] me, so that into the favour of the lord Sarapis […] when present I spoke to you
[…] of my house is at your disposal, and some […] I wrote to you of my house, and now to this
[…] I appended. And as you write, journeys
[…] to sail out from Rome to Alexandria […]
[… ? lines lost …]
Records disagree on place: Rome is given as the place of writing, while another record suggests perhaps Alexandria. 'Itinerary' renders a Latin loanword (itinerarium) in the Greek.
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 Apollinarius (?)). 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.mich.8.501
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