Letter from Arimmas to his son Dorotheos about textiles and papyrus TM 34179unbekanntIV - V

A private letter from Arimmas to his son Dorotheos, complaining that Dorotheos has not written or sent anything, and listing textiles of various lengths and colours. Arimmas asks for a pack of ten papyrus sheets and says he has sent a labelled container of fish sauce.

In English machine translation

The last line is grammatically awkward: 'spathion' may be a container, and 'garous' (fish sauce) may stand in error for a carrier's name. The colour terms 'kalaina' (turquoise or greenish blue) and 'skiota' (shaded or dark) have no exact English equivalents.

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 Arimmas). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.