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Letter about rings to be sold and belongings held by others TM 28672unbekanntII (?)

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Fragment of a private letter in which the writer reminds the recipient of money to be collected and of personal belongings held by various people, including silver rings left with Epiktetos and the goldsmith Kornelios to be sold. It also lists household items and garments in the recipient's keeping. Probably 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] I released to you, beside the […] of the embroiderer 32 drachmas in weight. I wrote to you by letter that you should collect 80 drachmas from Krisse, who lives with […] on account of a mirror. I wrote that Epiktetos has my large silver ring, making […] in weight, Ptolemaic, so that you may sell it. I sent to you (word) that Kornelios the goldsmith has my silver key-ring of three quarters, so that it may be sold […] You have two bronze sieves, one new and one middling, and a new xestes measure, and you have my white cloak and the … … white, and the self-coloured work-garments (?) and those of Xois and the off-white ones, apart from the […] […] but the large … […] beneath the present (?) […] but […] you will bring for one artaba, no longer […] … artaba … […] […] and of the fan (?) not […] of me. All these things I did not write in the tablet […] when going out lest […] […]

The writer explains that these items were not recorded in a writing tablet (pinakidion) on departure. 'Xoitika' refers to garments from Xois in the Delta; several garment terms are uncertain.

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

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

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