Fragmentary private letter of the 3rd century AD in which the writer mentions payments of drachmas and purchases, sends greetings to family members including Dionysias and her daughter and passes on greetings from Horion. He urges the recipients to avoid quarrels among themselves until he comes up to them, since serious troubles have befallen them.
In English machine translation
[verso]
[…] wrong(?) […]
[…] just […]
[…] them, so that I may give them back […] I have given 200 drachmas, dr. 200.
And buy […] drachmas' worth […] I owe […]
nothing else, since I and my brother are […]
[…] and cheeses. I greet my brothers warmly; greet my sisters
for me. I greet Dionysias and her daughter, and your son Horion greets you warmly. For see, I am serving him as far as I am able.
Take care not to cause unpleasantness toward one another, so that we may not be in distress; leave things until I come up to you, for no small troubles have befallen us,
but bear with them as I too bear with them. I pray for the health of you all always.
The restoration "so that we may not be in distress" (katagoniasomen) is conjectural. The opening lines are too damaged to show the business context.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ermahnung zur Eintracht). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.