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Letter from Ammonis to his brother Thermoution requesting clothing TM 30429Oxyrhynchites (?)III - IV

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A private letter from Ammonis to his brother Thermoution, complaining that nothing has been sent and asking for a cloak, a linen dalmatic and a blanket to be given to Hesychios to bring. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD and probably comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Ammonis to Thermoution his brother, very many greetings. Before all else I make obeisance for you every day before the god. Dionysios sent word to me that Thermoution has received everything, and you have sent me nothing. So do everything, brother, send me the cloak (maphorion) and the linen dalmatic and the blanket I told you about. For you know my modest means, that I need them. Give them to Hesychios. My wife greets you, my daughter Theonilla greets you. I greet … my brother Stephanos. I pray for your health. I greet Ammonis the citharode. [verso] … to Thermoution from Ammonios his brother.

The sender is Ammonis in the opening but Ammonios in the address. The maphorion was a hooded cloak or mantle, and the dalmatic a long tunic with sleeves.

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 Ammonis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.oxy.33.2682

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III - IV · Oxyrhynchites (?)

[r] Ἀμμῶνις Θερμουτίωνι τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τῷ θεῷ. ἔπεμψέ μοι Διονύσιος ὅτι πάντα εἴληφε Θερμουτίων καὶ οὐδέν μοι ἔπεμψας. πᾶν οὖν ποίησον, ἄδελφε, πέμψον μοι τὸ μαφόρτιον καὶ τὸ δελματίκιον λινοῦν καὶ περὶ οὗ…