One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 703736

Draft letter from Asklepias to her mother TM 703736unbekanntII v.Chr. (?)

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Draft of a private letter from a daughter, Asklepias, to her mother, with the usual health greetings for the family. The damaged remainder mentions sealed items, a fine little chest she has handed over, a certain Asklas and someone named Ariston, and asks the mother to reply if she agrees.

In English machine translation

[A] Asklepias to her mother, greeting. If you are well together with my brothers and sisters and those in the household, it would be as I pray; I myself too, and my father and my brother and the [...] are in good health [...] [... lines lost ...] [B] [... lines lost ...] [...] [...] [...] sealed [...] and [...] 10 cubes (?) [...] look after (?) [...] Asklas, and point out that I have handed over to her a fine little chest. [C] [...] [...] concerning the [...] [...] of Ariston and if you agree with him, let me know so that [...] [... lines lost ...]

The text is considered a draft rather than a sent letter. The word rendered 'cubes' (kybia) is uncertain in this context; it may refer to small cubic objects or pieces of salted fish.

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

p.koeln.17.666

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text

[A] Ἀσκληπιὰς τῇ µητρὶ χαίρειν. εἰ ἔρρωσαι µετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν καὶ τῶν ἐν οἴκωι, εἴη ἂν ὡς εὔχοµαι καὶ αὐτὴ δὲ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ ἀδελφὸς καὶ τὰ […] ὑγιαίνοµεν[…] [… ? lines lost …] [B] [… ? lines lost …] […]… […]…α …[…] εσφραγισµέντω[…] λιωι καὶ υλιον[…] κύβια ι κωσ…ε[…] ἐπισκε… Ἀσκ…