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p.abinn.37 Mitte IVPhiladelphia (Arsinoites)

Letter to the praepositus Abinnaeus reporting on men he was sent to fetch. A letter to a praepositus (a military commander, here Flavius Abinnaeus of the Dionysias camp) from a subordinate reporting on his attempts to round up several men: Didymos is held back by a debt of 3 solidi owed to soldiers, Gerontios is laid up by a kick in the side, and Theodoros was found detained. It comes from the Abinnaeus archive, mid-4th century AD, Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] τῷ δεσπότῃ μου καὶ πάτρωνι πραιποσίτῳ πολλὰ χαίρειν. προηγουμένως εὔχομαί σε τὸν ἀβάσκαντον οἶκον. γινώσκειν σε θέλω, πραιπόσιτε κύριε, τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἣν δέδωκα Ποσιδωνίῳ διὰ τοὺς στρατιώτας ζ οἳ προσεποιήσαντο[…]υ αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐγὼ τις […]ἀπήγαγα εἰς διν…[…] …[…]κει ἀπέστειλα πρὸς σὲ καὶ π[…]εστινας τῆς πόλεως μετʼ Ἀπολλωνίου. καὶ ἀπῆλθα πρὸς Δίδυμον καὶ λέγει ὅτι οὐ δύναμαι ἀπελθεῖν ὅτι ἐν μεγάλῃ περιστάσει εἰμί, τρία νομισμάτια ἐχρησάμην παρὰ στρατιωτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐπιτρέπουσίνμοι ἐπανελθεῖν ἕως οὗ ἀποδῶ τὸ χρέος. καὶ Γερόντιον ἐζήτησα εὑρὼν αὐτὸν ἐκ Πελκεήσιος εἰς τὴν κώμην τῆς συμβίου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔγραψα αὐτῷ τοῦ ἀπαντῆσαι αὐτὸν εἰς τὰ κάστρα καὶ ἀντέγραψέν μοι αὐτὸς ὅτι τὴν πλευρὰν πάσχω λάκτισμα λαβὼν ὅτε γίνομαι ἐμαυτοῦ τῇ αὖριἐπʼ αὐτοῦ τοῦ πραιποσίτου. καὶ ἐπῆλθα ἐπὶ Θεόδωρον, εὗρον αὐτὸν ἐν … […] κατεχόμενον […]ορια τον ζωσ[…]ον καὶ […]οστυ […]ου ἐξάκτορα […]μητι…ροση […] καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸ [v] ἐκβῆναι. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς χρόνοις.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my master and patron the praepositus, many greetings. First of all I pray for you and your household, may it be free from the evil eye. I want you to know, lord praepositus, that the letter which I gave to Posidonios because of the 7 soldiers who pretended (?) […] his […] that I […] led away to […] […] I sent to you, and […] of the city, with Apollonios. And I went to Didymos, and he says, "I cannot go away, because I am in great difficulty: I borrowed 3 solidi from soldiers and they do not allow me to return until I pay back the debt." And I looked for Gerontios, finding him (gone) from Pelkeesis to the village of his wife, and I wrote to him that he should meet (me) at the camp, and he himself wrote back to me, "I am suffering in my side, having received a kick; when I am myself again, (I will come) tomorrow before the praepositus himself." And I went to Theodoros; I found him in […] detained […] the […] and […] exactor […] and for this very thing [verso] to go out. I pray for your health for many years.

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Found at Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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