Letter from Ptolemaios to Herakleides TM 8228Hibeh, Mummy 87260 BCE

Opening of a private letter from Ptolemaios to Herakleides, with the customary wishes for the recipient's health and affairs and a report that the writer is well. The rest, which began a request ("you will do me a favour"), is lost. It comes from mummy cartonnage found at Hibeh and dates to about 260 BC.

In English machine translation

The papyrus was recovered from mummy cartonnage (Mummy 87). The phrase "you will do me a favour" is the standard Greek way of introducing a polite request."}

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