One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 40933

Letter from Nilos to his brother Nemesion about a woman come to Karanis TM 40933unknown51 or 57 A.D.

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A private letter from Nilos to his brother Nemesion, rejoicing at news of his release and asking him, at the request of friends, to look after a woman from the household of Kallonios who has come to Karanis and to protect her from extortion. It is dated Year 12, Sebastos 5, in the mid-1st century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Nilos to Nemesion his brother, greeting. I was very glad to hear that you were released. Know that the woman in the household of Kallonios has come to Karanis, and I have been asked by friends. Therefore I write to you so that you may take her under your care. You will keep her free from extortion. So do not do otherwise. Farewell. Year 12, month Sebastos 5. [verso] Deliver to Nemesion.

Sebastos is an honorific name for the month Thoth, so the date falls in late August or early September. The Greek 'adiaseiston' means free from extortion or harassment, a term often used of protection from officials' exactions; the description calls the household that of Kallinikos, but the text reads Kallonios.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as 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 — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 969 · 51 or 57 A.D. · unknown

The content of this letter from Nilos to his brother Nemesion is somewhat unclear. First Nilos expresses his joy upon hearing that his brother had been released. The circumstances of this alone are unclear. Nilos also asks the brother to monitor a woman living in the house of a c…

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 51 or 57 A.D.

[r] Νῖλος Νεμεσίωνι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. ἐχάρην λίαν ἀκούσας ὅτι ἐλύθης. γίνωσκε τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν ἐν τοῖς Καλλωνίου ἐληλυθέναι εἰς Καρανίδα καὶ ἠρώτημαι ὑπὸ φίλων. διὸ γράφω σοι ἵνα διὰ χειρὸς αὐτὴν σχῇς. ἀδιάσειστον αὐτὴν ποιήσεις. μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσῃς. ἔρρωσο. ιβ ἔτους μηνὶ Σεβα…