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Letter from Petros to his mother Maria asking for jewellery and winter clothing TM 35577OxyrhynchosV

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A Christian private letter from Petros to his mother Maria at Oxyrhynchus in the 5th century AD. After greeting his siblings and acquaintances, he asks her to send jewellery through Athanasios, to buy him a thick winter wrap, and to collect a hood made in the Oasis so he can wear it on his journey home.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643 To my lady, most honoured and virtuous mother Maria, her son Petros, greetings in the Lord God. I have found an opportunity through this letter of mine to greet you warmly, together with my brother Theon and my lady sister Plouse and my sweetest little brothers and sisters Heraeis and Nonna and Omaia and Phoibammon, each by name. Please, lady mother, send me the bracelets (?) and the earrings. Do not neglect then to send them to me through Athanasios. I greet warmly my lord brother Athanasios, the chamberlain of Abelos and also of Dorotheos. I greet warmly my mother Kyrillous. Please, lady mother, buy me one thick wrap for the winter, and please get the Oasis-made hood from Petros son of Esour, so that I may wear it when I come. I pray for your health for many years. [verso] Deliver to my dearest Maria from your son Petros.

The heading χμγ (643) is a Christian isopsephic symbol, probably standing for a sacred phrase. The word ολοιαρα is obscure; it may denote a kind of bracelet or ornament, and kamararios (chamberlain) has no exact English equivalent.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Peter). 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 · Oxyrhynchos

[r] χμγ τῇ κυρίᾳ μου τιμιωτάτῃ καὶ ἐναρέτῃ μητρὶ Μαρίᾳ ὁ υἱὸς Πέτρος ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ χαίρειν. εὐκαιρίαν εὗρον διὰ τούτων μου τῶν γραμμάτων τὰ πολλὰ προσαγορεῦσαί σε ἅμα καὶ τῷ ἀδελφῷ Θέωνι καὶ τῇ κυρίᾳ μου ἀδελφῇ Πλουσῃ καὶ τοῖς γλυκυτάτοις μου ἀδελφίοις Ἡραεΐδι καὶ Νόννᾳ καὶ Ὀμαίᾳ …