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Letter from Aurelius Perikles to Serenus about logs and a departing boat TM 28695ArsinoitesEnde II - Anfang III

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Private letter from Aurelius Perikles to Serenus, acknowledging receipt of 5 logs and asking for 2 more camel-loads to be sent by early Phamenoth because his boat departs on the twentieth. He offers to carry anything Serenus needs upriver and asks to be told promptly if nothing is coming, so he can release the boat.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] Aurelius Perikles to Serenus his brother, greetings. I greet you, brother, before all else, having received 5 logs. Please, then, send me 2 more camel-loads by the third or fourth of the month Phamenoth. For the boat leaves on the twentieth. And you too, brother, write to me what needs you have in the upper parts, and I will at once convey it to you, not for the sake of wages but for the sake of your incomparable praise (?). So do not [column 2] hold up the boat. If you do, at least write to me quickly that you are not sending to me, so that I too may release the boat. Farewell, together with your wife and children and your household. Farewell, I pray, for many years in good health, together with your family. [verso] Deliver to Serenus, decadarch (?), from Aurelius […]

Serenus's title in the address is abbreviated; it is expanded as decadarch (a junior military or cavalry officer), while the catalogue calls him an ex-decurion. The 'camel-loads' (kamelia) refers to quantities of logs carried by camel.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief an den Exdecurionen Serenus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Ende II - Anfang III · Arsinoites

[r,1] Αὐρήλιος Περικλῆς Σερήνῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. ἀσπάζομαί σε, ἄδελφε, πρὸ πάντων κομισάμενος κορμοὺς ε. καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις ἕτερα β καμήλιά μοι διαπεμψάμενος εἰς τρίτην ἢ τετάρτην τοῦ Φαμενὼθ μηνός. τὸ γὰρ πλοῖον ἐξέρχεται εἰκάδι. καὶ σὺ οὖν, ἄδελφε, γράψον μοι, τίνας χρείας ἔχε…