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A private letter from Psais to his son Elias, sending greetings to Elias' daughters and their mother and complaining that he has had no letter for a long time because of a matter involving Pakysis. He urges Elias not to neglect affairs in the south and says he will come unless the landowner he serves needs him. Fourth century AD, Kellis in the Dakhleh Oasis.
"Landowner" renders geouchos, a large estate holder of late antiquity on whom Psais apparently depended. Mesobe is a place name, apparently in the oasis region.
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.
κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ Ἠλίᾳ Ψάις χαίρειν. ἀσπάζομαί σε πολλὰ καὶ τὰς κυρίας μου θυγατέρας μετὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν εὐχόμενος ὑγιαίνειν, γράμματά σου μὴ δεξάμενος διὰ τοσούτου χρόνου διὰ τὸ ἀνῆκόν σοι πρᾶγμα περὶ Πακύσιος. κεὶ τελέως ὁ ἄλλος ἀπήλλαξέν σε. θαυμάζω ὅπως μὴν ἐσχόλασας ἀπελθεῖν ε…
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