Letter of Serapous to her mother TM 89225This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75

The opening of a private letter on an ostracon from Serapous to her mother, whose name begins Aphrod-. Only the greeting and the start of a statement that something was received survive. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike and dates to about AD 50-75.

In English machine translation

The mother's name is only partly preserved (Aphrod[...], perhaps Aphrodite or a similar name).

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 Serapous to his mother). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.