Letter from Theon to his mother TM 31786Oxyrhynchos (Oxyrhynchites, Ägypten)III

[recto] To my lady mother, Theon, greetings. Before all else I pray that you are safe and sound and in good health before the Lord God. Do not think, my lady mother, that I neglected to come up to the Oxyrhynchite nome. You know that if (she?) misses the early season, after that we have no other hope for the goods. So you will do everything, my lady mother, not to neglect your daughter. For my brother has thrown away (?) the foal. You must look after it, and I was not able to come up. If you think I should come up, write to me and I will come. If you think you should go away to most splendid Alexandria, write to me, and whatever you think I should bring, whether purple, write to me what kind you want me to bring, or oil, write to me how much I should bring, or if you want anything else, write to me. I greet my sisters and my father Barbareion and my mother Herakleia and Euterpe and her children and Anne and her children and Isis and Eutyches and my mother Sophrone and Neilos and Pymenis and our father Choous and our mother and Aphous and his brother and his sisters. I pray that you are well and safe and sound. [verso] Deliver, from Theon. Address mark: in Teumenouthis, in the lane opposite the well.