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Letter from Chairemon to Syros asking for honey TM 3187unbekanntII v.Chr.

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A private letter from Chairemon to Syros, asking him to buy a chous of honey and reproaching him for not writing although many travellers were coming their way. It sends greetings to Chairemon's mother and brothers and is dated Choiak 30, in the 2nd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] Chairemon to Syros, [greetings]. Already Thais desires […] […] […] you put in to harbour (?) […] Buy me one chous of honey. And if, as I have heard, you are in good health, you ought to have written to me, since there are many people coming to us. Greet my mother and my brothers. Farewell. Choiak 30. [verso] […] to Syros, his own.

The opening lines, which mention Thais and apparently a ship's arrival in port, are badly damaged. A chous is a liquid measure of roughly 3 litres.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.koeln.5.226

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II v.Chr.

[r] Χαιρήμων Σύρωι χαίρειν. ἤδη Θάις ἐπιθυμεῖ σο…ωι …[…]…η […]… προσορμίσῃς …[…]…[…]…ου[…]…υμνου ἀγόρασόν μοι μέλιτος χοῦν ἕνα. εἰ δέ, ὡς ἤκουσα, ὑγιαίνεις, ἔδει σέ μοι γεγραφέναι πολλῶν ὄντων τῶν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐρχομένων. ἀσπάζου τὴν μητέρα μου καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφούς. ἔρρωσο Χοιὰχ λ. [v] …