Private letter
Letter from Ammonios to the teacher Theon, concerning the teacher's salary, which is paid in the form of victuals.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 28917
Letter from Ammonios to the teacher Theon about a jar and grapes TM 28917ArsinoitesIInd century A.D.
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A short private letter from Ammonios to his teacher Theon, asking the price of a jar so he can send payment and announcing a basket of grapes sent by a camel-driver. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Ammonios to Theon the teacher, greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are well together with your household, and that you instruct me about whatever you wish. Let me know the price of the jar, so that I may send it by the bearer. Receive through Achilleus the camel-driver of Harpalos a basket of grapes, which alone he carried.
Farewell.
[verso]
To Theon, teacher, son of Tatoes (?).
Kathegetes means a teacher or tutor; the catalogue takes the gifts as part of his payment. In the address, Tatoes is probably Theon's mother's name, or possibly a place name.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Ammonius to Theon). 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.3.156
[r] Ἀμμώνιος Θέωνι τῶι καθηγητῇ χαίρειν. πρὸ πάντων εὔχομαί σε ἐρρῶσθαι σὺν τοῖς σοῖς καὶ ἐπιτρέπειν μοι περὶ ὧν βούλει. τὴν τιμήν μοι τοῦ κεραμίου δήλωσον, ἵνα διὰ τοῦ λαμβάνοντος πέμψω. κόμισαι διὰ Ἀχιλλέος καμηλίτου Ἁρπάλου κίστην σταφυλῆς, ἣν μόνην, ἐβάσταξε. ἔρρωσο. [v] Θέων…