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Letter from Pausanias to his father Julius Alexander about goods sent TM 31325OxyrhynchosIII

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A private letter from Pausanias to his father Julius Alexander, listing food and goods sent by various carriers (eggs, mustard, radish oil, honey, cakes, bread) and reporting on errands concerning a cloak held by a mender and grain from Ammonios' mother. He also asks for leather bags, a mantle and shoes; written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[1] Pausanias to Julius Alexander his father, greetings. Before all else I pray for your health and I make obeisance for you before the local gods. Receive from Syros a basket of 80 eggs and a jar containing 3 choinikes of mustard and half a chous of radish oil, and a jar containing half a chous of honey, and the small sword. Receive from Agathemeros a honeycomb and a pot of 10 cakes and 3 honey garlands; give these to my sister and greet her warmly. Receive from the man bringing you the letter a basket holding 40 and a Canopic basket containing 4 pairs of loaves and 6 pairs of scorselina (?). The mender says, "I am not giving either the money or the cloak without Justus"; for he says that the cloak has not yet been redeemed; and Philoxenos I did not find at all. I went to the mother of Ammonios and she says, "I have no grain just now, nor have the petitions been completed up to now." Bring me two leather bags, a mantle and a riding (?) basket of five years and a shoe. Send me now a flesh-coloured ... having ... [2] […] us […] me and the […] my [mother (?)] […] and […] must do […] for the […] that […] my […] to come […] has in […] with you […] full […] of 4 drachmas and jars […] of ointment […] stater the […] for his […] I received and […] expense and […] but later […] in my name […] My mother greets you […] my […] I pray for your health for many years. […]

The second column is badly damaged and only phrases survive. Several terms (skorseleina, the phrase 'hippikinakoi pentaetias') are obscure and translated tentatively.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Pausanias). 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.6.936

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

[1] Παυσανίας Ἰουλίῳ Ἀλεξάνδρωι τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις θεοῖς. κόμισαι παρὰ Σύρου κλουίον ᾠῶν π καὶ βαυκάλιον ὅπου τριχοίνικον σινάπεως καὶ ἡμίχουν ἐλαίου ῥαφανίνου καὶ βαυκάλιον ὅπου ἡμίχουν μέλιτος κ…