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A Christian private letter to Herakleides, addressed as beloved brother, sent with a sister Maria who was travelling. The writer returns to a matter of money (forty units and eighteen minas) involving Gaianos and someone who stayed three months in Hermopolis, and reproaches Herakleides for not demanding payment. Written in the 4th century AD, from Antinoopolis.
The greeting 'in the Lord' marks the writer as Christian; 'brother' and 'sister' may be Christian terms rather than kinship. Line ends are lost, so the details of the debt are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private Letter). 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] Ἡρακλείδῃ ἀγαπητῷ ἀδελφῷ […] ἐν Κυρίῳ χαίρειν. […] εὐκαιρίαν καὶ νῦν εὑρὼν τῆς ἀδελφῆς […] Μαρίας παραγιγνομένης […]ἔσπευσα προσειπεῖν τὴν σὴν χρηστότητα[…]γράφειν δὲ πάλιν περὶ τῶν τεσσεράκοντα […] καὶ τῶν δεκαοκτὼ μνῶν[…] Γαιανός σε ὑπεμίμνησκ[…] αὐτὸν ποιήσῃς διδόναι τη…[……
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