One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31689

Fragment mentioning a mother's name and a year 4 TM 31689MemphisIII

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A small fragment from the verso of a papyrus from Memphis, dated to the 3rd century AD. Only scattered words survive, including a filiation by mother's name, a mention of something to be written or sent, and a regnal year 4; the nature of the document cannot be determined.

In English machine translation

[verso] […] […] whose mother is […] […] daimon (?) […] […] to be sent instructions (?) […] […] year 4 […] […] […] […]

Identification of a person by the mother's name ('from mother') is common in magical and some official texts, but too little survives to decide. The word read as 'daimon' is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.leipz.17v

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

[v] [… ? lines lost …] […]ν ἐκ μητρὸς[…] […]ης δαιμ[…] […] ἐπισταλῆναι […] […] δ ἔτους αλ…ονεως […] […]νεις ηλι[…] […]ως λημ[…] [… ? lines lost …]