Letter
The contents of this letter must remain unknown, due to the fragmentary state of the papyrus.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36569
Fragmentary letter to a person of glorious eminence mentioning Julianus TM 36569unknownSixth century CE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
Fragment of a sixth-century Greek letter written to a high-ranking person addressed as "your glorious eminence". The writer acknowledges receiving a letter, urges the addressee to take heart, mentions a Julianus and invokes God, master of all.
In English machine translation
[recto]
† I received the letter of your glorious eminence […]. I urge it to be of good cheer […] Julianus. For God, the master of all, […] to your glorious eminence […] that many […]
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[verso]
[…] from […]
One catalogue describes this as the letter of a "dux", a military governor, though the surviving text does not name him. "Glorious eminence" renders an honorific form of address used for high officials in Late Antiquity.
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 a "Dux"). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.leid.inst.1.71
[r] † τὰ γράμματα τῆς ὑμετέρας ἐνδόξου ὑπεροχῆς[…]ἐδεξάμην. παρακαλῶ αὐτὴν εὐθυμεῖν[…]ηφρ[…] Ἰουλιανόν. ὁ θεὸς γὰρ ὁ πάντων δεσπότης[…] τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἐνδόξῳ ὑπεροχῇ ηδε[…] ὡς ὅτι πολλ[…]…[…]οι[…] […]…η[…] [v] […] παρὰ …