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A fragmentary private Christian letter of the 6th century AD in which the writer greets a motherly figure and his sister Thekla, asks the recipient to receive something connected with Kollouthos, and to keep certain items until the feast so he can sell them. He also asks for news of his mother and brother.
The right side of each line is lost. "Your motherly […]" is probably an honorific address such as "your motherly affection"; the scribe deleted "the mo(ther)" before writing "my brother".
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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.
[r] πρὸ μὲν πάντων πολλὰ προσαγορεύω τὴν σὴν μητρικὴν[…] καὶ Θέκλαν τὴν ἐμὴν ἀδελφήν. καθὼς εἶπόν σοι ὅτι λ[…] Κολλούθου θέλησον δέξασθαι αὐτὸ καὶ εἰ μὲν δέδωκας τὰ[…] εὖ καὶ καλῶς· εἰ δὲ μήγε ἐάσον αὐτὰ ἕως τῆς ἑορτῆς ἵνα πωλήσω αὐτὰ […] φάσιν περὶ τῆς μητρός μου καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ…
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