One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 381898

Fragment of a text of unknown character TM 381898unbekanntIII - II v.Chr.

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A small Greek papyrus fragment preserving only the ends of fifteen lines. The word "greetings" in line 2 suggests it opened as a letter or similar address, but too little survives to tell what it concerned. It dates to the 3rd to 2nd century BC and is held in Leiden.

In English machine translation

[…] … […] […] greetings […] […] … […] the decisive (?) […] […] … […] … […] … […] … […] she (?) […] […] … […] and […] the […] just (?) […] … […] not

The greeting formula in line 2 hints at a letter, but the surviving letters are too few to confirm this. The reading krisim- may belong to a word meaning "decisive" or "critical".

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragment of a text of unknown character). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

basp.50.27_7

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III - II v.Chr.

[…]…ενο… […] χαίρειν κ… […]…ε…πιση […] τὴν κρίσιμ […]σ…πως […]…ωδε […]…ιμα […]…κο […] αυτη […]…[…]ενε […]στο καὶ […]ν τους […]καιοι […]…αν […]ν μη