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p.ant.2.94 VIAntinoites (?)

Letter of Zacharias via HGV-meta

Letter from Zacharias to a comes about estate business. A sixth-century letter from Zacharias to a superior holding the rank of comes, acknowledging a letter brought by the courier Akorios and reporting on business: replies from Damianos and Victor, administrator of Poïs, sent by a monastery boat, and matters concerning estate agents, gold, and assistants. It probably comes from the Antinoite region. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † τὰ γράμματα τῆς ὑμετέρας περιβλέπτου δεσποτείας ἐδεξάμην διὰ Ἀκωρίου τοῦ συμμάχου καὶ μαρτυρεῖ μοι ὁ δεσπότης Χριστὸς ὅτι περιχαρὴς ἐγενόμην μαθὼν τὴν ὑγίειαν αὐτῆς, ὡς ὅτι τὸν ἴδιόν μου ἀδελφὸν Ἐπανάκιον βλέπων ἀναστήσαντα ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν ἕως καταξιώσῃ με ὁ Θεὸς προσκυνῆσαι ἄλλοτε ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας τῆς ὑμετέρας δεσποτείας καὶ τελει…τ…[…]…[…]… […]καθὼς δὲ …[…]εν[…]…[…]ς[…] δεήσω τῷ κυρίῳ Δαμιανῷ τῷ ὑμετέρῳ ὑποδέκτῃ. οὐκ ἐδυνήθη Ἀκώριος ὁ σύμμαχος ὑπομεῖναι τῇ ἀποκρίσει, ἀλλὰ σὺν Θεῷ κατερχομένου μου ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀντινόου τῷ Πάσχα τὴν ἀπόκρισιν αὐτοῦ τοῦ κυρίου Δαμιανοῦ καὶ τοῦ κυρίου Βίκτορος τοῦ διοικητοῦ Πώεως γράφω ὑμῖν διὰ τοῦ οἰακίου τοῦ σκάφους τοῦ μοναστηρίου τοῦ καλουμένου τῆς Περιστερᾶς. περὶ δὲ Ἀκῆτος τοῦ προνοητοῦ […]…[…]ιν ἀκέφαλα δέδωκεν Ἀκωρίῳ κατερχομένῳ καὶ ὡς λέγει πολὺ χρυσίον […] τοῦ εὐδοκιμωτάτου Φιλίππου τοῦ μεσίτου καὶ ἀπῃτήθη παρὰ τοῦ ἰλλουστρίου […]δοῦναι εἰ μὴ ταῦτα. περὶ δὲ Θέωνος τοῦ βοηθοῦ ηὗρον αὐτὸν προφυγόντα οὐδὲ ἐλάλησα αὐτῷ μέχρι νῦν. ἐλάλησα δὲ Ἰωσῆφι τῷ βοηθῷ Ψώβθεως, καὶ ἐπιστολὴν […] τινα ναύτην νομισμάτων ἓξ τυγχάνοντα ἐγγὺς ὑμῶν. λέγει δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς […] ὅτι ἐκ γραμμάτων ὑμῶν ἐκελεύσατε αὐτῷ ταύτην τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ποιῆσαι […]ἦλθεν Ἀκώριος […] πολλὰς ἡμέρας ἐποίησεν ἐν τῇ Λύκων πόλει[…]… μοι […] ὅτι καὶ εἰ μὴ ἀνῆλθον οὐκ ἀπεδόθησάν μοι […]εις ὑμῶν …ν…[…]σαι προαποδοῦναι […]…[…]…[…]…[…] […] ὑμῖν. ἐλπίζω δὲ ὅτι[…] […]τοῦ οἰκιακοῦ τοῦ σκάφους ὡς …[…] […]ον οὐκ ἐδυνήθη βαστάζειν[…] […] τῆς εἰρημένης εὐκαιρίας[…] […]… στα[…]τα[…]τασ…κ…[…] […]ημ[…] υπτα…[…] […]ς […] [v] † δὸς τῷ ἐμῷ δεσπότῃ …… κόμετι † Ζαχαρίας ὑμέτερος δοῦλος †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † I received the letter of your admirable lordship through Akorios the courier (symmachos), and Christ the Lord is my witness that I was overjoyed to learn of your health, as if I were seeing my own brother Epanakios risen from the dead, until God deems me worthy to make obeisance again at the feet of your lordship [and] […] and as […] I shall ask the lord Damianos, your receiver (hypodektes). Akorios the courier could not wait for the reply, but, God willing, when I go down to Antinoou at Easter, I am writing to you the reply of the lord Damianos himself and of the lord Victor, the administrator of Poïs, through the helmsman (?) of the boat of the monastery called 'of the Dove'. As for Akes the pronoetes, […] he gave the summaries (?) to Akorios when he went down, and, as he says, much gold […] of the most esteemed Philippos the mesites, and it was demanded by the illustris […] to give, except these things. As for Theon the assistant, I found that he had fled, [nor have I spoken] with him until now. But I spoke with Joseph the assistant of Psobthis, and a letter […] a certain sailor for 6 solidi, who happens to be near you. The same man says […] that by your letter you ordered him to make this letter […] Akorios came […] he spent many days in Lykopolis […] to me […] that even if I had not gone up, they would not have been paid to me […] your […] to pay in advance […] […] to you. And I hope that […] […] of the household (?) of the boat as […] […] he could not carry […] […] of the said opportunity […] […] […] […] [verso] † Deliver to my lord […] the comes. † Zacharias, your servant †

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