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A private letter from a woman named Isis to her mother Thermouthion, telling her she reached Alexandria safely in four days and sending greetings to many relatives and friends. She adds that if Aion wants to join the army he should come, since everyone is enlisting. It dates to the 3rd century AD and comes from Philadelphia in the Fayum.
The proskynema formula is a standard epistolary phrase reporting prayers made on the recipient's behalf before a god, here Sarapis, presumably at his great temple in Alexandria. The scribe first wrote the singular 'you' in the closing and corrected it to the plural.
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.
[r] Ἰσεῖς Θερμουθίωι τῇ μητρὶ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι καὶ τοῖς συννάοις θεοῖς. γεινώσκειν σε θέλω, ὅτι εὖ καὶ καλῶς γέγονα εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἐν τέσσαρσι ἡμέραις. ἀσπάζομαι τὴν ἀδελφήν μου καὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ Ἐλουᾶθ καὶ τὴν γ…
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