p.alex.giss.45
[… ? lines lost …] […]Ἀρσινόης καὶ περὶ οὐδένος ἀντέγραψας. παρὰ τῷ δὲ βαφεῖ ἐστιν μέχρι οὗ γράψῃς περὶ τοῦ ἀρέσκοντός σοι χρώματος. ἄσπασαι Διοσκορᾶν. ἔρρωσο, κύριε, Χοίακ ιζ
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27567
Letter about a garment waiting at the dyer's for a choice of colour TM 27567Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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The end of a private letter whose writer complains that the addressee, called 'lord', did not reply about anything. An item is waiting at the dyer's until the addressee says which colour he wants. The letter closes with greetings to Dioskoras and is dated Choiak 17; it comes from the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome.
In English machine translation
[...] of Arsinoe, and you wrote back about nothing.
It (the cloth?) is with the dyer until you write
about the colour that pleases you. Greet
Dioskoras.
Farewell, lord. Choiak 17.
The beginning of the letter is lost, so what is at the dyer's is not stated in the surviving text. 'Lord' (kyrie) is a polite form of address and need not imply rank.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.