One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 27582
Letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios the strategos TM 27582Apollonopolites Heptakomias
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A fragmentary private letter from Eudaimonis to her son Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomias nome. She sends greetings and wishes for his health, then mentions that she has not shaved and that she had her hair cut, apparently as part of a vow or in mourning, before the text breaks off.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Eudaimonis to Apollonios her son, very many greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are in good health and […] and free from harm always. I want you to know that I have not shaved myself […] you yourself, do you not know that I will not do other things […] So I had my hair cut […]
[… ? lines lost …]
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of Heptakomia […]
Eudaimonis and her son Apollonios, strategos of Heptakomia, are well known from a family archive of the early 2nd century AD. The references to shaving and cutting her hair probably relate to a vow or mourning custom, but the context is lost.
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’Eudaimonis). 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.alex.giss.60
[r] Εὐδαιμονὶς Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι υἱῶι πλείστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ …[…] […]καὶ ἀπρόσκοπον εἶναι πάντοτε. γεινώσκειν δέ σε θέλω ὅτι οὐκ ἐξύρημαι εὐ[…] αὐτὸς οὐκ οἷσθα ὅτι οὐ μὴ ποιήσω ἄλλα πε[…] […]ἐκαρήθην οὖν […] [… ? lines lost …] [v] Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγ…