Private letter
Private letter from Iustus to Ploution, asking him to make various purchases.;Verso address.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28904
Letter from Ioustos to Ploution asking for textile purchases in Busiris TM 28904Unknown place, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
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A private letter from Ioustos (Justus) to his friend Ploution, asking him to buy linen tunics and other textiles in Busiris, with a price limit of 40 drachmas for the tunics. It dates to the 2nd century AD; the end is lost, and the back carries the address.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Ioustos to his dearest Ploution, very many greetings.
Please buy for me in Busiris two linen tunics, solid, clean, fine, up to 40 drachmas; a fine pair of Diospolis cross-striped (garments) (?), a single bath-towel (?), a fine half-blanket (?), if anything larger. So see that you do not neglect it; another, worse than the one from Sais (?) […]
[…]
[verso]
Deliver to Ploution […]
The textile terms (epikarsia, balanarion, hemitylion) are rare and their exact meanings uncertain; 'Diospolis' and 'Sais' presumably refer to places of manufacture.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.oslo.2.56
[r] Ἰοῦστος Πλουτίωνι τῷ φιλτάτωι πλεῖστα χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις ἀγοράσας μοι ἐν Βουσῖρι χιτῶνας λινοῦς δύο στερεὰ καθάρεια καλὰ ἕως δραχμῶν μ, ἐπικαρσίων Διοσπόλεως ζεῦγος καλόν, βαλανάριον μοναχόν, ἡμιτύλιον καλόν εἴ τι μείζω βλέπε οὖν μὴ ἀμελήσῃς ἄλλο χείρω τῆς Σάεως […] [… ? li…