A private letter from Tasoucharion to her brother Neilos, written in the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd century AD. She reports handing over security documents for a house, asks for news about the house and about the census registration so she can sail up to join him, tells him not to sell the grain, and sends many greetings.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Tasoucharion to Neilos her brother, many greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are well, and I make obeisance for you before the lord Sarapis. Know that I have given to Ptolemaios, the broker (?), the security documents for the house, to the Demetrion. Please, then, write to me about the house, what you have done,
and the earnest-money of Sarapion, I gave it to him as advocate (?),
and write to me about the registration (census return). If you are making the registration […]
you do well […] and
write to me quickly, so that I may get ready and sail up to you.
And about the grain, do not sell it. I greet my sister
Taonnophris and the daughter of Bellaios.
Didymos and Heliodoros greet you.
Ptolemaios and Tiberinus and Sarapion greet you all. I greet
Sarapion son of Imouthes and his children
and Soma and his children and his wife
and Heron and Tabous and Ischyriaina.
Saturninus greets you all. I pray for your health.
Tasoucharion greets Pe…is
and her children. Helene greets
my mother warmly and my brothers.
Chairemon son of …nos greets you all.
[verso]
Deliver to Neilos from Tasoucharion his sister, (daughter?) of Tasachos.
The word rendered 'broker' (kalamesitas) is unclear; the Demetrion is probably a record office or quarter. The apographe is likely the household census return, for which family members had to be present.
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.