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Letter to a master about earnest money, gold and a boat TM 38173unbekanntVI - VII

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Fragmentary private letter of the 6th to 7th century AD, addressed to a respected 'master', about earnest money, gold to be sent by another boat, and affairs connected with a holy woman named Heraeis. The writer promises gratitude and closes by asking to be written to and given instructions.

In English machine translation

[...] [...] of the earnest money (?) to be three [...] to me [...] send [...] another boat together with the gold, but I beg you, master, [...] me [...] and I shall thank your piety many times for these things. Your reverence told me [...] and for the affairs of the holy Heraeis at the same time, and that you should send to me and nothing [...] [...] for a long time enjoy your decency and her son and these [...] [...] and if there is any need, deign to write to me and give orders, master.

The beginning is lost and several lines are damaged; 'piety', 'reverence' and 'decency' are honorific forms of address typical of late antique letters. The word for 'piety' is written twice, once misspelled.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.bodl.1.80

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII

[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] […]… ἀραβόνος ειναι τρία… μοι ησ…θα … πέμπε[…] ἄλλο πλοῖον μετὰ καὶ τοῦ χρυσίου, ἀλλὰ παρακαλῶ, δέσποτα, μοι …[…] καὶ εὐχαριστήσω τῇ σῆ εὐσεβείας εὐσεβίας πολλὰς τῶνδε, εἶπεν μοί ἡ σὴ εὐλάβεια[…] καὶ εἰς τὰ τῆς ἁγίας ἄμα Ἡραείδος καὶ πέμπῃς ἐπ…