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A private letter from a woman named Tasoucharion to her brother Neilos, asking him to register some security documents she sent via Longinianus in the name of Sarapion alone, and to send two jars of olive oil through a soldier. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
The 'asphaleia' are documents serving as legal security, probably contracts to be registered in an archive. 'Keramia elaias' may mean jars of olives or of olive oil.
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.
[r] Τασουχάρειν Νίλωι τῶι ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν μετὰ τῶν σῶν πάντων καὶ ἐγὼ αὐτὴ μετὰ τῶν τέκνων. τὰ ἀσφάλεια, τά σοι ἔπεμψα διὰ Λονγεινιανοῦ, καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις ἐπʼ ὀνόματος Σαραπίωνος μόνου καταχωρίσῃς ταῦτα καὶ δηλώσῃς μοι. πέμψῃς διὰ Ἡερα…
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