Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads Apparently the emperor wrote, “…bene valere te cupimus”, i.e. “…we desire that you be well.” The document is translated for us in B. Porten &c, The Elephantine Papyri in English, 1996, p.441, entry D 19. https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/tag/appion-of-syene/ by Haunting_Homework381