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HGV: P.Oxy. 2 295 [source] [xml]

Title Letter of a Daughter
Publications P.Oxy. 2 295
More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 2
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Translations Olsson, Papyrusbriefe (1925) 23.; Bagnall - Cribiore, Women's Letters (2008), B8.6, Nr. 262
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date ca. 35
More from the period between 35 CE and 36 CE
Subjects Brief (privat); Thaeisus an ihre Mutter Syras; Nachricht von einer Flucht
Images http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/ldpd/app/apis/item?mode=item&k...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 20566 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 2 295 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1899) = Olsson, Papyrusbriefe 23 (Olsson, Bror / ; 1925)
Inv. no. New York, Columbia University P. Oxy. 295
Date AD 35 about
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people

Catalog Record: columbia.apis.p347 [xml]

Title Letter [about 35 AD]
Summary Private letter from Thaisous to her mother, Syras. The letter consists of a series of enigmatic messages probably written in response to a letter from Syras
Citations P. Oxy. II 295
Inv. Id Oxy. 295
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus fragment; 8.2 x 25 cm
Language In Greek
Date 35 CE
More from the period between 35 CE and 36 CE
Note (general) Written along the fibers; back blank
Note (general) 15 lines, plus one line in the left margin; broken at bottom
Note (general) Written in a very large epistolary hand using a thick pen
Subjects Private letter; Papyri
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.2.295 [xml]

AD 35 Oxyrhynchus

Θαεισοῦς Συρᾶτι τῇ
μητρί. γίνωσκε ὅτι
Σέλευκος ἐλθὼν
ὧδε πέφευγε.
5μὴ σκλύλλε(*) ἑ̣α-
τὴν(*) ἐνπῆναι(*).
προσδέχου ἰς(*) τὸν
ἐνιαυτὸν Λου-
κία. γράψον μοι
10τὴν ἡμέραν.
ἄσπασαι σὺ
Ἀμμωνᾶν
τὸ[ν] ἀδελφόν μου
κα[ὶ]   ̣ρ̣απ[  ̣]ν καὶ
15[τ]ὴ[ν ἀδε]λφὴν
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]α̣[  ̣  ̣  ̣]
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17,msκαὶ Θεωνᾶν τὸν πατ[έ]ρα.

Apparatus


^ 5. l. σκύλλε
^ 5-6. l. ἑαυ |τὴν
^ 6. l. ἐμβῆναι, BL 5.76 : ἐμφῆναι(?) prev. ed.
^ 7. l. εἰς

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HGV 20566 Translation (English) [xml]

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 2) Thaisous to her mother Syras. I must tell you that Seleucus came here and has fled. Don’t trouble yourself to explain (?). Let Lucia wait until the year. Let me know the day. Salute Ammonas my brother and ... and my sister ... and my father Theonas.

APIS Translation (English)

Thaisous to Syras her mother. Know that Seleukos came here and has fled. Do not trouble yourself to embark. Wait till the anniversary. Lucia, write to me the day. Greet Ammonas my brother and -rapis and my sister ... and my father Theonas.