Private Letter
Letter from Serenus to Kyrilla, perhaps his wife, and to Zoilos, carrying only the traditional greetings
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28796
Letter of greetings from Serenos to Kyrilla and Zoilos TM 28796UnknownIInd century A.D.
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A private letter of the 2nd century AD from Serenos to Kyrilla, perhaps his wife, and Zoilos. It consists mainly of greetings to family and friends and a prayer on their behalf before the local gods, with a request to look after his son Eros.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Serenos to Kyrilla and Zoilos, his dearest, greetings.
Greet the dearest […]. […] greets you. I make your obeisance before the gods here. Greet your sister and her daughter and Thermouthis and […] and their children and K[…] and Anteros and Eutychia and Soteria. Take care of my son Eros.
I pray for your health, most honoured and dearest ones.
[verso]
To Kyrilla […]
The 'obeisance' (proskynema) is a customary formula in which the writer reports praying for the recipient before the gods of the place where he is. The writer slips between singular and plural 'you', and deleted a singular 'you' in the closing formula.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Serenus to Cyrilla and Zoïlus). 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.mich.3.207
[r] Σερῆνος Κυρίλλῃ καὶ Ζωίλῳ τοῖς γλυκυτάτοις χαίρειν. ἄσπασαι τὸν γλυκύτατον […]μ…λον. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Σ[…]π…ν…πυλης. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς ἐνθάδε θεοῖς. ἀσπάζου τὴν ἀδελφήν σου καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτῆς καὶ Θερμοῦθιν καὶ …[…]… καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν καὶ Κ…[…] καὶ Ἀντέρωτα κ…