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Letter to brother Philoxenos about a need for money TM 38646Herakleopolites (?) oder Arsinoites (?)VII

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Fragmentary Christian letter of the 7th century AD addressed to a 'brother' Philoxenos, from the Herakleopolite or Arsinoite nome. The writer speaks of a need, mentions trimesia (third-solidus coins) and a sum of one solidus, and urges the recipient not to neglect the matter.

In English machine translation

[recto] † Since I have need […] for God knows, not wishing […] the trimesia. Do […] to write to you at Mikr[…] for I know that there is not lacking […] […] of it, of one solidus […] So do not neglect, since […] since I did not wish (?) to burden […] you have the friends […] of the letter, many […] [verso] [†] […] to my brother Philoxenos […] […] Abba Ioulei[…] †

A trimesion was a gold coin worth one third of a solidus. The place name beginning Mikr[…] is incomplete, and the verso mentions an Abba Ioulei[…], perhaps the sender or a cleric.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief an Philoxenos). 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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cpr.6.85

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VII · Herakleopolites (?) oder Arsinoites (?)

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