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Lettre privée via HGV-meta
Letter from a landowner of the shrine of Saint Menas about camels. Fragmentary private or business letter of the 5th century AD from a landowner associated with the shrine (topos) of Saint Menas to a distinguished superior. It opens with deferential greetings and refers to the superior's earlier letter about camels, saying no one hindered them; the rest is lost. machine translation
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Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 35249.
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- Lettre privée HGV-meta unbekanntV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…] θαυμασιωτάτῳ καὶ
[…]τάτῳ καὶ εὐλαβεστάτῳ καὶ περιβλέπτῳ
κυρίῳ ἡμῶν παρὰ Ωθεου γεούχου
τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἁγίου Μηνᾶ· πρὸ μὲν πάντων
προσκυνῶ καὶ ὑμνῶ τὴν σὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν. καθὼς ἔγραψε ἡ ἀρετή σου
διὰ τῶν καμήλων οὐδεὶς ἐκώλυσεν αὐτοῖς[…]
[… 4 lines lost …]
ἔρρωσο πολλοῖς
χρόνοιςTranslations (1)
[…] to the most admirable and […] and most pious and distinguished lord of ours, from Otheos (?), landowner of the place (shrine) of Saint Menas. Before all else I do obeisance to and praise your magnificence. As your excellence wrote concerning the camels, no one hindered them […]
[… 4 lines lost …]
Farewell for many years.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35249 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.alex;;inv209 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35249 tier-1
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- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 35249 (see that record)