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Letter from Athanasia to her mother with greetings to family TM 30581unbekanntIII - IV

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A private letter from a woman named Athanasia to her mother (addressed also as 'my mothers'), reassuring her not to worry, thanking God that Taos has set off, and sending greetings to many relatives and acquaintances. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD and uses Christian-style formulas.

In English machine translation

[recto] To my ladies, my mothers, from Athanasia, greetings. Before all else I pray to our Lord God that you are in full health and well. Know then, my lady mother, that I do obeisance at your feet. Do not be anxious about me, […] we give thanks to our Lord God that Taos has just set off with (us?). I greet my lord Paisias and my lady mother and my sister Horigenia and Thaeis and Sophia and Leukilla (?) and Eudaimon and Herakleides and Dionysios. I greet my lord brother Pekylos and his children. I greet Zosimos and Kalopos and Hellalibes and Makedonis and Thatles and Peiperis and Nike and Zosime and all of yours by name. I pray for your health, my lady mother. I greet all of yours by name. Farewell. [verso] To my lady mother from Athanasia her daughter.

The text writes Athasios (masculine) in the opening, but the address on the back shows the writer is Athanasia, a daughter. The phrase 'our 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 Privatbrief). 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 - IV

[r] ταῖς κυρίαις μου μητράσι παρὰ Ἀθανασίου χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τῶι κυρίῳ ἡμῶν θεῷ ὁλοκληρεῖν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν σε. μαθὲ οὖν, κυρία μου μήτηρ, ὅτι προσκυνῶ τοὺς ποδὰς ὑμῶν. μὴ ἀγωνία οὖν περὶ μοῦ, […] εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν θεῷ, ὅτι Ταὼς ἄρτι συναπῆρε. ἀσπάζομαι τὸν …