One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31718

End of a letter with a reminder about a writing case TM 31718HermopolisIII

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The closing lines of a private letter from Hermopolis, AD 3rd century. The writer asks the recipient to remember a small writing item he had asked about in person, and dates the letter Pauni 1.

In English machine translation

[… 18 lines lost …] I wish you to be well and to remember the little stylus case (?) about which I asked you when you were here. Farewell and may you prosper. Pauni 1.

The word graphiarion may mean a stylus or a case for writing implements. The exact sense 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.amh.2.181

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

[… 18 lines lost …] ἐρρῶσθαί σε βούλομαι καὶ μεμνῆσθαι τοῦ γραφιαρίου περὶ οὗ σε παρόντα ἠρώτησα. ἔρρωσο καὶ διευτύχει. Παῦνι α.