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Letter from Aurelius Artemidoros to the wife of Aurelius Apollonios TM 30489Oxyrhynchosspätes III - IV

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A private letter from Aurelius Artemidoros to a woman, the wife of Aurelius Apollonios, reporting on efforts by his brother Dioskourides to obtain a document with a Latin text and Greek translation for 40 drachmas, and on matters concerning someone's release involving a certain Didymos. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the late 3rd or 4th century AD, it closes with a Christian greeting.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] […] […] […] Dioskourides my brother […] […] those who had undertaken these things [and] promising to provide them, with much entreaty they agreed to receive 40 drachmas and to present […] of Dioskourides a sheet on which were written both the Latin text and its translation. And again going to them they said it was better […] that the […] had been deposited (?) […] […] but to them having considered […] […] he reckoned it better to help in providing […] […] to give the 40 drachmas and to send them on; yet do you suppose that he received nothing [or] that he was negligent? So these are the things that were done. He promised that, when he went out on the matters entrusted to him by the council, once he was there he would communicate them to Didymos and learn from him what followed and what was done about the release; and Kriton son of Epimachos brought me this letter of the one who asked that the small change be sent on from you. When my brother Dioskourides learned this, he had that man restored and […] that it was right […] to take charge […] having registered […] and will send [to] you. And I, if from the assistants of Didymos, his guards, I learn anything further, will write to you. I greet by name your children, may the evil eye spare them, with whom I pray that you are well in the Lord God. [verso] To […]onarion, wife of Aurelius Apollonios […] from Aurelius Artemidoros

The 'Latin text and its translation' (literally 'the Roman things') likely refers to an official Latin document with a Greek version. The phrase 'in the Lord God' suggests a Christian writer.

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 Aurelius Artemidorus). 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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p.oxy.20.2276

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

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]πολα…[…] […]Διοσκουρίδης ὁ ἐμὸς ἀδελφὸς[…] […]εν τοὺς ταῦτα ἐκλαβόντας καὶ ὑποσχόμενοι παρέξειν μετὰ δεήσεως πολλῆς συνεφωνήθησαν λαβεῖν δραχμὰς μ καὶ παραστῆσαι[…] Διοσκουρίδου χάρτην ᾗ ἐνεγράφη τά τε ῥωμαϊκὰ καὶ ἡ τούτων ἑρμηνεία. αὖθίς τε παρελθόντες …