One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 35477

Fragment of a letter with requests concerning a sale (ecclesiastical?) TM 35477unbekanntV - VI

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Fragment of a Greek letter from Egypt, dated to the 5th or 6th century AD, in which the writer makes repeated requests of the addressees, mentions his mother and something to be sold, and says he is sending something to them. It has been tentatively classed as an ecclesiastical letter.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] [...] ... [...] ... and somewhere (?) [...] ... [...] of the precious [...] [...] ... [...] and I urge [...] ... [...] of the one ... (?) to my mother [...] for sale. Again I beseech [...] your sincerity in this [...] made manifest (?) [...] I send to you. And I think that if you [...] the greater of those there, I mean [...] [...] ... seller (?) [...] [...] ... to the [...] [...]

The address 'your sincerity' (gnesiotes) is a courtesy title of late antique letters, which supports the tentative ecclesiastical classification. The sequence 'ρωνσοπωλης' may contain a word for a kind of seller, but the reading is unclear.

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

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