Letter [mid III AD]TourbonAPIScolumbia.apis.p311(NNC)aaa1235p.col.10.2780094;10;278p.col;10;2783183831838Col.inv. 250Personal letter from Tourbon to his brother Dioskoros, asking him to send something, probably a cloak, and to raise a certain pig; lengthy salutation at the endWritten along the fibers; on the back the address along the fibers; the hand is large but becomes much smaller and faster as the writer picks up speed toward the bottom of the textThe letter was probably written personally by Tourbon, like P.Col. X 27920 lines of writing; it is unclear how many lines, if any, are missing in the central partIn Greek2papyrus fragments ; 20 x 19 cm240 CE – 260 CE
Purchased by Columbia University from M. Nahman and New York dealer J. Brummer, through H.I. Bell, November 1925; no. 47 (original no. 25) in Bell's inventory
APIS keywords are controlled locally at the institution level. They are not necessarily consistent.EnglishIn GreekPersonal letterPapyri
Tourbon to his brother Dioskoros many greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in good health. I am well myself. Every day I make obeisance for you in the presence of our lord Sarapis. I want you to know, brother, that having found an opportunity I deemed it necessary to write you this letter, indeed my second one. You yourself did not write back to me even a single letter. You should take thought, brother, as I enjoined you when I was leaving you, not to be careless, knowing that, if you neglect it a little, we will lose them and . . . you will communicate . . . (send me) a cloak and other things. Try to get busy and send me these things very quickly, if he (?) sends them to you. If not, then be more zealous: raise for me the pig of which I have talked to you until it . . . or when it happens, you will write to me. I greet your wife and your children. I greet Herakles, I greet . . . Petaiesis and Thermouthas and her children. I greet also Sarapias and Keias and her children, I greet Pt(olemaios?) and his wife, I greet all the people who love us.
P.Col. X 278 Plates 33-34 in P.Col. XP.Col.:10:278