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Letter from Herakleides to Theon TM 30346unbekanntIII

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Fragment of a private letter from Herakleides to Theon, mentioning a letter received and urging Theon to write about his health. It dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] Herakleides to Theon, greetings. […] […] the letter by which […] […] you, and I urge you to write to me about your health […] [verso] From Herakleides son of (?) […] …

The sender's name is partly restored; the verso preserves the start of the address.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’Heracleides à 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.

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

[r] […]Ἡρακλείδης Θέωνι τῶι χαίρειν[…] […]τὴν ἐπιστολὴν διʼ ἧς ἐπι[…] […]σε καὶ προτρέπομαί σε ἐπιστέλλειν μοι περὶ τῆς ὑγιείας σου [v] ἀπὸ Ἡρακλείδου τοῦ[…] …