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Letter from a woman to Herakleides about farmers and transport charges TM 27606Philadelphia (Arsinoites)II

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A fragmentary private letter from a woman to Herakleides, insisting on her loyalty to him and giving instructions about Orsenouphis, tenant farmers and charges for transporting grain. She reproaches him for not visiting her when she was confined and for not going to certain people.

In English machine translation

[recto, main text] [… lines lost …] […] taking them. For I have not changed myself; whatever I have ever done has come about through you, Herakleides; nothing has happened without you. Do not let Orsenouphis go unless he makes the report (?) for you. If the farmers come, look after them as if they were ours. For it is […] somehow, having heard that I was shut in, and you did not come to me. There are not 11 artabas at all. Transport charges of Tanis (?). If I do not drag in the farmer, I will demand it from you. I know that you robbed her (?) [recto, margin] […] four artabas of transport charges, since I arranged a valuation. [verso] […] he will receive; they have demanded […] 1 1/2 artabas […]; why did you not go to them?

The writer is a woman (feminine forms). The meaning of 'anaphorin' (report or payment) and 'Taneos' (perhaps a place name) is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

bgu.7.1675

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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