o.eleph.wagner.357
[…] τῷ ἀδελφῷ[…] χαίρειν. […]ν ἔλεγεν […]… ἑαυτοῦ […]εἴκοσι . ἐὰν δέ […]… λέγων πα[…]ἔκκοψα τοὺς […]…ος …γη […] ἀλλ…[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29891
Fragment of a letter to a brother TM 29891ElephantineII - III
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A small fragment of a private letter on an ostracon addressed to a 'brother', found at Elephantine and dated to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. Only scattered phrases survive, mentioning something someone said and the number twenty.
In English machine translation
[…] to his brother […] greetings.
[…] he was saying
[…] of himself
[…] twenty. But if
[…] saying […] I cut out (?) the
[…]
[…] but […]
[… lines lost …]
'Brother' may be a courtesy term rather than a sibling. The verb read as 'I cut out' is restored and uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment de lettre). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.