p.erl.114
[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀείωνι Ἰωάννης. καταξίωσον ποιῆσαι τὰς ὀλίγας κριθὰς τὰς κειμένας ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ σου γομωθῆναι ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως ειν γὰρ ἔγραψα [… 3 lines lost …] [… ? lines lost …] [v] κυρίῳ μου
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31407
Letter from Ioannes to Aeion about loading barley for the city TM 31407unbekanntIII - IV
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A private letter from Ioannes to his 'brother' Aeion, asking him to have the small quantity of barley stored in his house loaded for transport to the city. The rest of the letter is lost; it dates to the 3rd-4th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To my lord brother Aeion, Ioannes.
Please see to it that the little barley lying in your house is loaded (for transport) to the city. For I wrote [...]
[...]
[verso]
To my lord [...]
'Brother' and 'lord' are polite forms of address and need not imply kinship. The word read 'ειν' before 'for I wrote' is unclear, and the text breaks off after it.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.