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p.alex.25 II
Lettre privée via HGV-meta
Letter from Dios to his brother about land work and purchases. A private letter from Dios to his 'brother' about household and farming business: he reports that, with the arrival of the hegoumenos, the work on 2 arouras will be finished, complains that Keramos does nothing but talk at dinner when the addressee is away, and asks him to buy goods through Ammas or another trustworthy agent. It dates to the 2nd century AD. machine translation
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TM 26994.
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- Lettre privée HGV-meta unbekanntII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[ctr]
Δίος Ω[…]
ἀδελφῷ …[…]
ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα[…]
οἰκίας ης…[…]
αἰγυπτιω[…]παραγενομένου σοῦ ἐξ ειλυσινηνα
ἵνα μὴ ματαίως πολλάκις συνιστανόμεθα
καὶ σκύλλωμεν τὰς
γυναῖκας καὶ τοὺς φίλους· ὅταν γὰρ ἀνέλθής,
ἐπιγνώσῃ τὰ πραχθέντα· ἅμα δὲ σήμερον
παραγενομένου τοῦ
ἡγουμένου Θεῶν
ἐπιτρεπόντων ἐκπλέξομεν τὰς β ἀρούρας.
ὅταν γὰρ ἀπῇς ὁ Κέραμος ἔξω τοῦ πολλὰ
λέγειν παρὰ δεῖπνον
οὐδὲν ἐποίει. ὅσα δὲ
δύνασαι ἀγορᾶσαι διʼσυν …[…]
Ἀμμᾶτος ἢ διʼ οὗ ἐὰν
ἄλλου εὕρῃς πιστοῦ
ἀγόραζε του…τρ.
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τιμὴ αὐτῶν πολὺ …θη μνα ὥστε καὶ ἐν τούτῳ ἑαυτοὺς πείσωμεν
νῦν …[…]…ων τω[…]… ἔρρωσο, κύριε ἄδελφε.Translations (1)
Dios to O[…], his brother, […]
Since the matter […] of the house […] Egyptian (?) […] when you have come from Eilysinena (?), so that we do not keep meeting in vain and troubling the women and the friends; for when you come up, you will learn what has been done. And at the same time, since the hegoumenos has come today, with the gods' permission we shall finish off the 2 arouras. For when you are away, Keramos did nothing except talk a lot at dinner. Whatever you can buy through […] Ammas or through any other trustworthy person you find, buy […].
[in the margin] Their price is much […] mina (?), so that in this too we may persuade ourselves
now […] Farewell, lord brother.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 26994 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.alex;;25 tier-1
- HGV-Text 26994 tier-1
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