One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28790

Letter to Loukia listing gifts of food and instructions about clothing TM 28790unbekanntII

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Fragmentary private letter to a woman named Loukia, listing foodstuffs (pomegranates, flour, eggs, pigeons, grapes, figs) sent from various people, including a schoolmaster and a certain Dionysia. It also gives instructions about making a tunic and cloak from wool, apparently with an experienced woman, and mentions vegetable seed.

In English machine translation

[…] to Loukia, […] greetings. […] from Pekysis seven pomegranates […] and hektaria of fine wheat flour […] and from the mother of Harnouphis […] and 4 eggs and pigeon chicks (?) […] Harbekis six hektaria […] and from the schoolmaster […] and a basket of grapes […] twelve hektaria […] in a sealed bag […] fifty dried figs […] fifty in number […] and from Dionysia, sister […] of the one delivering the letter to you […] in a sealed small jar (?) […] for yourself a tunic […] and a cloak into one […] make the wool […] wage (?) the […] to an experienced woman, if […] and here it will be up […] of vegetable seed two artabas, 8 choinikes […] artabas to the one here [… ? lines lost …]

The left side of every line is lost, so senders and quantities are often incomplete. A hektarion is a small dry measure, one sixth of a larger unit.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Lucia). 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.mert.3.113

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

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