One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33403

Fragmentary letter mentioning a solidus and Kollouthos TM 33403unbekanntIV - VII

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Fragment of a Late Antique Greek letter mentioning a 'scriba', someone's judgment, a request to send a gold solidus, and a man named Kollouthos. The writer urges the recipient not to neglect a task.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] … scriba […] … […] […] … to learn his judgment … […] […] … the lord of me […] […] that: send me the solidus and […] […] to send it through … since […] […] of men, and to Kollouthos the […] […] … Do not neglect, then, to do the […] […] … your (?) … of us … and take nothing … […]

The holokottinos is the gold solidus of the Late Roman monetary system. The catalogue classes the text as official correspondence, but the surviving phrasing reads like a letter of requests.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Official correspondence). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV - VII

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