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Letter mentioning lessons, bread and a gift of eggs and pomegranates TM 28914unbekanntfrühes II

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Fragmentary private letter in Greek in which the writer mentions a fee for lessons, asks for news of a brother, complains that others eat three times as much bread, and reports sending 10 eggs and 2 pomegranates via Euthenias. Greetings are sent to the mother Ptolema, brothers, Theudous, and Tamystha with her children. It dates to the early 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] […] […] and the fee […] for the lessons […] and about my brother, write to me there, sending (word?), so that I too, on receiving it, may be refreshed. Know that it is not we who consume the loaves, but they eat three times as much as we do; and if you have a little firewood […]. We greet my mother Ptolema and my brothers and Theudous and all those in the house. I sent you through Euthenias 10 eggs and 2 pomegranates; and if you want eggs, send to me, for I have others, and the [...] (?) bought (?) […]. I greet Tamystha with her children. I pray for your health. Tybi 25.

The word 'ammas' (here 'mother') is a colloquial term for mother or nurse. The meaning of 'prolypa' is uncertain and the following verb is broken.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private 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.3.153

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

[… ? lines lost …] κ[…] ης[…] κ[…] ρη[…] ου…ε[…]…ε μισθὸν δὲ […]πρὸς τὰ μαθήματα …[…]καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου γράφειν μοι ἐκεῖ πέμψας, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ μεταλαμβάνων ἀναψύχω. γίνωσκε ὅτι οὐχ ἡμεῖς τοὺς ἄρτους δαπανῶμεν, ἀλλὰ ἀνὰ τριπλασίονα ἡμῶν ἔσθουσιν καὶ ἐὰν ὀλίγα ξύλα ἔχητε ? . ἐπ…