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Letter from Loukia to her brother Kasyllas about documents to be registered TM 31973unbekanntIII

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A private letter from Loukia to her brother Kasyllas, asking him urgently to send her the documents of a certain Pais, which he holds, so she can register them, and a document of authorization, since security has been given before the prefect and they are in serious trouble. It dates to the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Loukia to Kasyllas her brother, very many greetings. You write to me, 'Register the documents of Pais.' How can I, since you have them? So send them to me. Asklepiades arrived and we gave security before the prefect. So send me without fail […] the authorization (diastolikon). Look, you did not want to settle it. We have got into great trouble. So send me the papers at once; for he himself has his own. But see that you do not neglect this. I pray for your health. [verso] Deliver to Kasyllas from Loukia his sister.

A diastolikon was an official instruction or authorization, often connected with registering documents in the archives. 'Gave security' renders hikanon edokamen, a legal formula for providing surety.

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.

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

[r] Λουκία Κασυλλᾶτι τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. γράφεις μοι ὅτι καταχώρισον τὰ βιβλία Πάιτος. πῶς δύναμαι ὅπερ σὺ αὐτὰ ἔχεις. πέμψον οὖν μοι αὐτά. Ἀσκληπιάδης παρεγένετο καὶ ἱκανὸν ἐδώκαμεν ἐπὶ τὸν ἡγεμόνα. πέμψον μοι οὖν ἀναγκαίως[…]ου τὸ διαστολικὸν. ἰδοὺ σὺ οὐκ ἠθέλησας αὐτὸ ἐ…