Letter from Psois to his mother about a search at Lykopolis TM 33275Oxyrhynchos (?)IV

Fragment of a private letter from Psois to his mother, opening with a prayer to the God in the highest for her health. He reports that, as she asked, he went to Lykopolis (?) and spent five days searching for someone; the rest is lost apart from a mention of soldiers. It dates to the 4th century AD and may come from Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

The phrase 'the God in the highest' is typical of Christian or Jewish usage. 'Lykou' may be the town Lykopolis or a person named Lykos, who seems to be mentioned again a few lines later; the mother's name survives only as an ending in -ra.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Psoitis ad matrem epistulae fragmentum). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.