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Letter from Isias to Agathinos about a tunic for Apollonios TM 33135unbekanntIV

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A private letter from a woman named Isias to Agathinos, asking him to send a small tunic belonging to Apollonios, whom both care for like a son, and not to neglect the boy, who has been ill. She promises to send a pound of something by the letter-carrier or another reliable person. It dates to the 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[verso] From Isias to Agathinos, greetings. Do not neglect to send me Apollonios' little tunic; for I know that you too care for him as a son. And if (I can), through the letter-carrier or someone else trustworthy, I will send you quickly a pound for my little bundle (?). I am working on it myself. Do not neglect Apollonios; for you know that I took him in (?) when he was sick. Greet Thermouthis (?). I pray for your health. [recto] Deliver to Agathinos, from Isias.

The sense of 'a pound for my little bundle' (dematikin) and of 'I took him in when sick' (hērēka) is uncertain; the Greek is colloquial and the sentence about sending is loosely constructed. The name read as Thermoun is probably a form of Thermouthis.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Isias ad Agathinos). 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.flor.3.371

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV

[v] παρὰ Ἰσιάδος Ἀγαθίνῳ χαίρειν. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς πέμψαι μοι τὸ κιθῶνιν Ἀπολλωνίου· οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι καὶ σοὶ κήδῃ αὐτοῦ ὡς υἱός. καὶ ἂν διὰ τοῦ ἐπιστολαφόρου ἢ ἄλλου ἀσφαλοῦς πέμπω σοι ἐν τάχει λίτραν εἰς τὸ δεματίκιν μου. αὐτὸ ἐργάζομαι. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς Ἀπολλωνίου· οἶδας γὰρ ὅτι ᾕρηκα αὐτὸν…