Letter from Herais to her sister Lucretias about Eros and family news TM 78042Alexandria (?), EgyptIInd century A.D.

[recto] Herais to Lucretias her sister, greeting. Before all else I pray that you are well together with your children, may the evil eye spare them; I too am well with my family, making obeisance for you before the lord Sarapis. Do not worry about Antonius. Up to now he has not yet enlisted. I want you to know that those staying in Egypt have been referred (?) to the epistrategos. So if you are going up to Antinoou, write to me quickly so that I may […] come to you. But if you are not going, write to me again, so that I do not travel from here to there without means (?). Know that I went downstream and found Eros under arrest, and I went off to your brother. How often I asked him, and he would not release him, saying that if he wants to go up, he will provide the payment (apophora) to the orphans. On the fourth day, when I came to the city, Nephotianos also came. And write to us whether you received the purple from Peteesis the sailor. Greet Lucretius and Eutychos and Apphys. ⟦And Apollonia. And⟧ Antonis and Kopres and Nephotianos greet you. [verso] Deliver to Lucretias from Herais.