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Letter arranging a tunic-cloak on credit from the clothes-dealer Julianus TM 37343unbekanntVI

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A private letter of the 6th century AD replying to a correspondent addressed as "your Splendour" about a tunic-cloak needed by a woman and expenses for the display of official dignities. The writer says he has written to Julianus, a clothes-dealer, asking him to supply the garment on credit until the writer returns home.

In English machine translation

[…] the letter of your longed-for Splendour, through which […] […] for her a sticharophailonion (tunic-cloak) for her use, because of the […] of the dignities […] […] the master knows a winter cloak, surplus, not […] carat(s) (?) […] […] to fulfil; but if, as your Splendour wrote, before […] he spent for the display (?) of the dignities, I find that […] he asked (?), since the […] having displayed […] dignities more […] and he spent his own […] divine (?) […] concerning […] of God perfect, even if you are able to manage the same things yourself […] […] and do not be grieved over this. See, I have written a letter to Julianus, the most esteemed clothes-dealer, so that he may give you a sticharophailonion and trust you for its price until, with God, I come to my home town; and somehow, so that God may so arrange my humble affairs that I may be able to fulfil the orders of all of you and […] place […] the pigs […] [… 1 line lost …]

A sticharophailonion was a combination garment of tunic (sticharion) and cloak (phailonion); the "dignities" (axiomata) probably refer to honorific ranks or their insignia, and the damaged lines make the exact context uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Private 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 · VI

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