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Fragmentary private letter of the 5th century AD in which the writer sends greetings, protests that he has no one but the recipient, asks to be remembered along with their parents, and requests that a solidus be brought to him. A friend named Lollianos adds his greetings.
The solidus (holokottinos) was the standard late Roman gold coin. The phrase 'good Providence knows' reflects a common late antique, probably Christian, epistolary idiom; the passage about the child and 'speaking to another woman' is too broken for its sense to be certain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] … ὅπως … προσδέξῃ τὴν παρʼ ἐμοῦ προσηγορίαν. πολλὰ προσαγόρευσον τὴν κύραν τὴν ἐλευθέραν … … πολλὰ προσαγορεύει σε ὁ υἱὸς … καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ … … ὡς οἶδεν ἡ πρόνοια ἡ ἀγαθή, ἦξα αὐτὴν διʼ αὐτήν, οὐκ ἐλάληκα ἄλλῃ τινὶ διὰ τὸ παιδίον … διὰ τὴν α…
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