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A private letter from Pares to his 'lord and brother' Papeios, asking him, as usual, to buy various aromatic and medicinal substances by the pound and ounce, including mastic, saffron, cassia wood and costus. It dates to the 4th or 5th century AD.
Kassamon, konnara and seseli are ancient plant products used in medicine and perfumery with no exact modern equivalent; 'Cretan' presumably refers to a Cretan herb such as dittany. The pound (litra) and ounce (ounkia) are Roman weight units.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Pares Concerning Medicinal Herbs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r,ms] ἀγόρασόν μοι σισελίου […] [r] κυρίῳ μου καὶ ἀδελφῷ Παπείῳ Παρῆς πολλὰ χαίρειν. πρὸ παντὸς εὔχομαι τῷ θεῷ περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου κ…… τέκνων. ὡς ἔθος ἔχεις ποιεῖν καλῶς ἵνα μοι ἀγοράσῃς κασσάμου λίτρας δ καὶ μαστίχης ἁπλῆς Καρίας λίτρας ε καὶ χυδαίας μαστίχης λίτρας ε καὶ κρό…
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