A Second-Century AD Letter of Introduction in the Washington State University Collection

Abstract

Edition of a papyrus of the Washington State University; beginning of a letter which breaks off at the bottom after fourteen lines. In this letter the sender, a certain Ptolemaios, writes to his father Tryphon informing him that a man named Galates will a letter to him and that Galates then intends to meet with the strategus. Before the letter breaks off, Ptolemaios asks from his father the kind reception of Galates.