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Letter from Eusebios to Aphroditarion about wool for garments TM 31822unbekanntIII - IV

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A private letter from Eusebios to a woman named Aphroditarion, reporting good health and the recovery of his lord Gessios, and announcing that he will come to have wool worked into garments. He mentions the purchase of a woollen cloak and sends greetings to family members, complaining that Nikamon has wronged them.

In English machine translation

[recto] Eusebios to Aphroditarion, greetings. It was necessary for you to know that we are in good health, and I pray also to receive letters from you showing the same. Moreover, my lord Gessios too was recovering somewhat as usual. So, God granting, after staying a little while, being in good health I am coming up to you to have the wool safely worked, so that from it garments may be made for him and for us. The things of no value have passed (?); it belongs to the fire (?). And he gave instructions that he should not neglect those things. For having (?) [...] greatly, he succeeded (?) in buying for your lord one woollen birrus. Greet warmly from me also your daughter Charmis and dearest Hermione, about whom I gave you instructions in person and now remind you again, and also Adora and Nikamon and Nike. Nikamon, however, treated us abusively. Our people, who are well, greet you. I pray that you are well, in full health and prospering with your whole household. [verso] Eusebios [...] of Hermophilos (?), deliver to Aphroditarion [...]

A birrus was a hooded woollen cloak. Several passages (the 'things of no value' and the phrase with 'matisas') are obscure and the translation there is tentative.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Eusebios an Aphroditarion). 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.giss.univ.3.32

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

[r] Εὐσέβιος Ἀφροδιταρίῳ χαίρειν. ὅτι ὑγιαίνοιμεν ἀναγκαῖον ἦν γνῶναι ὑμᾶς, εὔχομαι δὲ καὶ παρʼ ὑμῶν γράμματα λαβεῖν τὰ αὐτὰ δηλοῦντα· ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ὁ κύριός μου Γέσσιος συνήθως πως ἀνεδύετο. θεοῦ οὖν παρέχοντος ὀλίγον διατρίψας εὐεκτῶν ἀνέρχομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς τὰ ἐρίδια ποιήσων ἀσφαλῶ…