Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018) 275-280. © American Society of Papyrologists/Peeters. doi: 10.2143/BASP.55.0.3285022 BRINGING TOGETHER THE FAMILY FOR A DAUGHTER’S WEDDING: P.YALE 1.78 RECONSIDERED 1 Anastasia Maravela University of Oslo and Joanne Vera Stolk Ghent University Abstract. — In this article we suggest a new interpretation of the private letter first published as P.Yale 1.78. Improved readings of ll. 1-2 and 6-9 and the address on the verso provide a more coherent grammatical struc- ture and allow a better understanding of the events described in this letter. Introduction The private letter P.Yale 1.78 (Arsinoite nome; first half of the second century CE) from Isidoros to Chenanoubis received a short edition in P.Yale 1 (1967) and has not attracted attention since its publication. 2 Yet the contents of this short example of private correspondence remain some- what obscure as a juxtaposition of the text and translation according to the editio princeps shows: Ἰ[σίδ]ωρος Χενανοῦβ[ι] πλεῖστα χαίρειν. [π]ρ[ὸ π]άντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγι- α[ί]ν[ει]ν. ἰδοῦ, πόλλα ἐνετει- 5 [λάμε]θα τῷ πατρί μου περὶ σοῦ [ἵνʼ εἰ]ς σὲ ἐνέγκῃ μετʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς τοὺς γάμους τῆς θυγατρὸς σ[ο]υ ἐπανενέγκων ὃ μέλ- 1 P.CtYBR inv. 169. We would like to thank The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for undertaking the restoration of the papyrus to facilitate our research and for sending us an image to work with. Our research was funded by The Research Council of Norway (NFR) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). 2 C. Préaux, “Review of P.Yale I,” Chronique d’Égypte 43 (1968) 404, accepts the interpretation of the editio princeps that the letter deals with the bringing of presents to the wedding of the daughter of the recipient.