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Letter from Sarapyllos to Ptollarion about a craftsman and items sent TM 28833Tebtynis (Arsinoites)II

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A private letter from Sarapyllos to Ptollarion reporting on a craftsman who has gone to the Herakleopolite nome, and listing documents (including a letter of the prefect to the magistrates) and foodstuffs being sent, such as fish, leeks and grapes. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] To Ptollarion, my lord, Sarapyllos, greetings. As soon as I came up from Psenyris yesterday I immediately met the father of the hard-stone worker (?), and he said that he (the son) had gone today to the Herakleopolite nome and would come back again tomorrow, which is the 21st; but that he himself could not leave the baths of the gymnasium. So, if you think fit, lord, send someone to him, so that from there he may come to you. Receive a letter written to the magistrates by his excellency the prefect, and a written order of the deputy of the strategos, and a short letter of Demetrios, and receive the little account of the clearance of the wine of Psenyris; small fish, 4, 4 drachmas; and leeks (?), 2 obols; and the grapes which little Paulina gave you in the basket (?), 10 in number; and […] 10; and in a small chest the grapes which Serenos gave to little Ni[…]. I pray for your health, my lord. Mesore 20. 4 for loading of leaves 5 of wine […] of sweet new wine 6, quarter-measures 2 […] new, tax on bread, total 6 by 4 birds 7 […] 4 [verso] To Ptollarion, lord.

Some words (skleroupgos, kephalota, kalaution, and 'kyriati kangaieous') are rare or obscure and their translations are uncertain; the account lines after the date are only partly intelligible.}

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Sarapyllos a Ptollarion). 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 →

p.mil.vogl.2.61

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

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