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p.amh.2.153
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Letter to Senouthios about arrested men, donkeys and a sheep register. A Byzantine or early Arab-period letter of instructions to an official named Senouthios, ordering him to hold two arrested men instead of sending them to Babylon, arranging maintenance money and barley for donkeys and their drivers, and demanding a count and register of sheep. It ends with an angry curse over the register. machine translation
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TM 37512.
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
† τοὺς κρατηθέντας δύο ἀνθρώπους
ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐποικίου Λεισκανάχου μὴ πέμψῃς
εἰς Βαβυλῶνα ἀλλὰ ἀπόκλεισον αὐτοὺς
εἰς τὸν ὅρμον σου καὶ γράψον μοι. τὰ δὲ
γαιδάρια παρασκεύασον δοθῆναι τῷ
πλ[…]τικῳ ὑπὲρ ἀποτροφῆς ἑκάστου
γαιδαρίου τριμήσιν ἓν καὶ ἃς λάβωσιν
οἱ ὀνηλάται μίαν ἀρτάβην κριθῆς ὑπὲρ ἑκάστου
γαιδαρίου ἵνα τὴν μὲν κριθὴν κατὰ
στράταν φάγωσιν τὰ γαιδάρια τὸ δὲ
τριμήσιν δοθῇ λόγῳ
ἀποτροφῆς αὐτοῦ· ἀλλὰ εἷς κρατήσῃ αὐτὰ καὶ δαπανήσῃ ἐξ αὐτῶν λόγῳ αὐτῶν. εἰ δὲ ἔχετε ἀποτροφὰς καὶ κριθὴν κάτω εἰς Βαβυλῶνα
λόγῳ τῆς τοιαύτης ἀποτροφῆς μὴ δώσῃς
τριμήσια μηδὲ κριθήν. ἐὰν δὲ ἐκφρήσῃς
τὰ ἀρρενικὰ πρόβατα γράψον μοι εὐθέως
ὅτι πόσα ἀρρενικά εἰσιν καὶ πόσα θηλικὰ καὶ πέμψον τὴν
καταγραφὴν αὐτῶν, ἵνα
ὁ θεὸς σήψῃ τὴν ψυχήν σου ὡς
διέσηψάς με εἰς τὴν καταγραφὴν ταύτην.
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† τῷ τὰ πάντα ς… τιμαξίῳ Σενουθίῳ …αν…[…]
…[…]… †Translations (1)
[recto]
† Do not send to Babylon the two men who were arrested from the hamlet of Leiskanachos, but lock them up in your harbour and write to me. As for the donkeys, arrange for there to be given to the […] for the maintenance of each donkey one tremissis, and that the donkey drivers receive one artaba of barley for each donkey, so that the donkeys may eat the barley on the road, and the tremissis be given ⟦to each donkey driver⟧ on account of its maintenance; but let one man take charge of them and spend from them on their account. If you have maintenance allowances and barley down at Babylon on account of such maintenance, do not give tremisses or barley. If you clear out (?) the male sheep, write to me at once how many are male and how many female, and send their register, ⟦and send me⟧ so that God may rot your soul as you have rotted me over this register.
[verso]
† To the in all respects […] most honoured Senouthios […]
[…] †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37512 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.amh;2;153 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37512 tier-1
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