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[r] Ἀπολλώνιος Ὠφελοῦτι τῇ μητρὶ χαίρειν. ἐξελθὼν ἀπὸ σοῦ τῇ δεκάτῃ πεζὸς ὕπνωσα εἰς Χῦσιν καὶ τῇ ια ἐκάθισα εἰς πλοῖόν μου καὶ τῇ ιβ ἐγενόμην ἐν [… ? lines lost …] [v] ἀπὸ Ἀπολλωνίου υἱοῦ Ὠφελοῦτι μητρί.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28258
Letter from Apollonios to his mother Ophelous about his journey TM 28258Oxyrhynchites (?)II
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The opening of a private letter from Apollonios to his mother Ophelous, describing his journey after leaving her: he walked to Chysis, boarded a boat on the 11th, and arrived somewhere on the 12th. The rest of the letter is lost; the address survives on the back. It dates to the 2nd century AD, probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Apollonios to Ophelous his mother, greetings.
Having left you on the tenth, I slept on foot (?) at Chysis, and on the 11th I sat down in my boat, and on the 12th I was in […]
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[verso]
From Apollonios, son, to Ophelous, mother.
Chysis was a village in the Oxyrhynchite nome. The phrase 'pezos hypnosa' means he travelled on foot and spent the night there.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Anfang des Briefes eines Sohnes an seine Mutter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.