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Fragmentary letter to a lord, written on finding an opportunity TM 32676Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)Mitte IV

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Fragment of the opening of a letter addressed to a 'lord', in which the writer says he took the opportunity to write. Only the beginnings of lines survive; it belongs to the mid-4th century AD archive of Abinnaeus, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

To my lord […] […] Having found an opportunity […] I wrote […] […] […] […] lord […] […] of the […] came (?) […] yourself […] house […] throw (?) […] […] so that […] […] [… lines lost …]

Part of the archive of Flavius Abinnaeus, commander at Dionysias; the address 'my lord' is a conventional courtesy. Only line beginnings survive, so most words cannot be construed.

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.

p.abinn.38

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte IV · Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)

κυρίῳ[…] […] εὐκαιρίαν εὑρὼν[…] ἔγραψα […] σης ς…[…] δων εα[…] λος ος…[…] κύριον […] περ χρι[…] τῆς εα[…] ἐλθη[…] σεαυτ[…] οἶκος […] βαλλ[…] τον ς[…] ἵνα […] περας[…] [… ? lines lost …]