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A Christian letter to Theodoros, probably from the Oxyrhynchite region in the 6th century AD. The writer acknowledges receiving Theodoros' letter via a young man from Oxyrhynchos and insists that letters be handed only into the addressee's own hands, as he finds himself among untrustworthy people; he asks to be told if anyone claims to have delivered letters to their common master.
The phrase 'as if in the presence of the gold' apparently means letters should be guarded as carefully as gold; the rest of the address on the verso is illegible. The provenance is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera a Theodoros). 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] † ἐν τῷ τοὺς κοινοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἀνελθεῖν, κατέλαβεν ὁ πεμφθεὶς παρʼ ἐμοῦ νεώτερος ἀπὸ Ὀξυρύγχων, καὶ ἐδεξάμην γράμματα ὑμῶν καὶ ἐχάρην ἐγνωκὼς τὴν ὑγιεῖαν ὑμῶν. γεγράφηκα τάδε ἵνα παραγγείλω τοῖς ἐρχομένοις μὴ δοῦναι τὰ γράμματά τινι, εἰ μὴ τοί γε εἰς τὰς χεῖρας ὑμῶν, καὶ ὡς ἐν…
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