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End of a private letter asking the recipients to send a book quickly with someone who is coming, followed by many greetings to and from family members, including the writer's father Sarapion. It is dated Pachon 28 and was written in the 3rd or 4th century AD.
The beginning of the letter is lost. The address on the back is broken, so Sarapion's description ('of the city') is incomplete.
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] [… ? lines lost …] […]……[…]…[…] […]ωνίου καὶ Σύρον …[…]… ἵνα ἐρχόμενον ἐν τάχει αὐτῷ τὸ βιβλίον πέμψητε. ἀσπάζου πολλὰ τὸν πατέρα μου Σαραπίωνα καὶ τὸν ἀδελφόν μου καὶ Ἐπάγαθον καὶ Σύραν. ἀσπάζονταί σε πολλὰ οἱ τρόφιμοι ἡμῶν καὶ Θάις καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς καὶ Θαῆσις καὶ τὰ τέκν…
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