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Letter from Psais to Pamour about selling goods with his son Tryphanes TM 33327Kellis (Oasis Magna)IV

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A private letter from Psais son of Tryphanes to his 'brother' Pamour, written at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis in the 4th century AD. Psais has sent his son Tryphanes with goods for Pamour to help sell, promises to pay Pamour wages for his time, and asks that the son not be detained and that Pamour come with him at the time of the new wine; a postscript asks him to exchange the remaining purple dyes for wool.

In English machine translation

[recto, centre] To my lord brother Pamour, Psais son of Tryphanes, greetings. Before all else I greet you warmly. Your brother greets you heartily, and the children and their mother. Your wife greets you, and your children, and all those in the house, every one. See, then, I have sent you my son Tryphanes with my goods, so that you may make every effort and gather together with him […] […] my […] and […] with him in good […] and, if you spend ten or twenty days with him until you sell my goods, I am ready to provide you with your wages meanwhile. Do not keep my son with you; (rather) come with him at the time of the new wine. For I know your diligence. I pray for your health for many years. [recto, margin] I beg you, do everything, if you can, to send me the products (?) […] of him of the fields there […] [verso] As for the remainder of the thirty […] purple (dyes?), give them in exchange for wool, making haste (?), and send me […] Address: To my lord brother Pamour, Psais son of Tryphanes.

'Brother' may be a term of affection or fellowship rather than kinship. 'Prophyrōn' is presumably a misspelling of porphyrōn, purple dyes or purple-dyed items.

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.

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p.kellis.1.73

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

[r,ctr] κυρίωι μου ἀδελφῶι Παμοῦρι Ψάις Τρυφάνους χαίρειν. προηγουμένως πολλά σε προσαγορεύω. ἀσπάζεταί σε πάνυ ὁ ἀδελφός σου καὶ τὰ τέκνα καὶ ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῶν. ἀσπάζεταί σε ἡ σύμβιος σου καὶ τὰ τέκνα σου καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ὅλοι. ἰδοὺ οὖν, ἀπέστειλά σοι τὸν υἱόν μου Τρυφάνην …