Letter from Herais to her son Agrippinus about a case before the strategos TM 32144Ptolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)139 - 145
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A private letter from Herais to her son Agrippinus about a legal matter brought before the strategos, in which a friend Antoninus helped them. She asks her son to send a sealed copy of a document, tells him they must remain in the city ten more days, and mentions gifts of oil and bread.
In English machine translation
The dikaiodotes is the iuridicus, a Roman judicial official in Alexandria; an anaphorion is a report or referral from him. The end of the letter is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre privée d’Heraïs à Agrippinus). 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.gen.1.2ed.74
Ἡραῒς Ἀγριππίνωι τῷ υἱῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ προκόπτειν. γίνωσκε, τέκνον, ἀπεληλυθέναι ἐμὲ καὶ Διόσκορον ἐπὶ τὸν στρατηγὸν μετὰ Ἀσκλᾶτος λέγοντος ὅτι· ἤνεγκα ἀναφόριον τοῦ δικαιοδότου καὶ ὅλως ἡμεῖς οὐδὲν βιβλίον εἴχομεν. διὸ ἐρωτηθεὶς ἐκλαβὼν …