Business Letter
Letter concerned with some mainly agricultural business
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28823
End of a business letter asking friends for their joint decision TM 28823UnknownIInd century/IIIrd century A.D.
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The closing lines of a business letter in which the writer asks the recipients to inform him of whatever they jointly decide on a matter, so that he can write accordingly. It is dated Epeiph 21 and comes from Roman Egypt of the 2nd or 3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[… ? lines lost …]
about the same matter, and whatever you decide by common agreement, let me know, so that I may write this very thing ⟦and to Theon⟧.
Farewell, friends. Epeiph 21.
The words "and to Theon" were deleted by the scribe. The beginning of the letter is lost, so the matter under discussion is unknown.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as End of a 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.mich.15.754
[… ? lines lost …] περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ ὃ ἐὰν στήσητε κοινῇ γνώμῃ δηλώσατέ μοι ἵνα αὐτὸ τοῦτο γράψω . ἔρρωσθε φίλοι. Ἐπεὶφ κα.