One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28300

Letter to Ammonios asking for items repeatedly requested TM 28300unbekanntII

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Fragment of a private letter in which the writer complains that despite writing many times, the recipient has not sent certain items (a 'kopla' and some 'lonchariа') and urges him to send them. It closes with greetings from the father and to the household; the address on the back names Ammonios. Dated to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] to have paid in full […] you will do. I have written [to you] so many times about the koplа (?) [and] the lonchariа (?) and you did not send them to me. So do everything, send them to me. Greetings [to you from] the father […] I greet all those in the house by name. Theon […] […] [verso] […] to Ammonios

The words 'kopla' and 'loncharia' (perhaps small lances or a kind of object) are rare and their meaning is uncertain. The beginning and end of the letter are lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter). 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.aberd.70

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

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […] πεπληρωκέναι […] ποιήσεις. ἔγραψά σοι ποσάκις περὶ τῆς κόπλας καὶ τῶνλονχαρίων καὶ οὐκ ἔπεμψάς μοι αὐτά. πᾶν οὖν ποίησον, πέμψον μοι αὐτά. ἀσπάζεταί σε ὀ πατὴρ […]ἀσπάζομαι τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ πάντας κατʼ ὄνομα. Θέον […]…ο…[…] [… ? lines lost …] [v] […] Ἀμμωνί…