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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

Herais to Agrippinus her son, very many greetings. Before all else I pray that you are well and prospering. Know, child, that Dioskoros and I went to the strategos with Asklas, who said: "I brought a report of the iuridicus, and we had no document at all." Therefore, when asked (?), take a copy, put it in a jar and seal it, and you will give it to my brother or to Julianus or to Valerius Rufus; and whatever you send, write it in a letter, seal it and send it. And we must stay on in the city for ten more days. The strategos heard us, and I told him that neither he nor anyone else should approach the […]; for Antoninus was with us in the city, and he helped us a great deal, both in the matter concerning Apolinarius and before the centurion and before the strategos. So you too thank him now. And receive from Serenos my brother a flask of oil and 4 large loaves. Herais and Thermouthis and Herais greet you […] […]

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 139 - 145 · Ptolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)

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 …