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p.ant.2.95 VIAntinoites (?)
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Letter asking an absent brother for authorization to manage family affairs. A sixth-century letter from an unnamed writer to a high-ranking 'brother' who has gone to Alexandria. The writer asks for news of his health, a written authorization to manage the remaining family affairs so the house is not closed, instructions about supplies for him and his slaves, and that he write to their mother, who is grieving in Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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- Letter HGV-meta Antinoites (?)VI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
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† καὶ ἄλλοτε γέγραφα τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀδελφικῇ δεσποτείᾳ διὰ τοῦ συμμάχου τῶν
διακονητῶν περὶ τοῦ ἀναλώματος αὐτῆς. παρακαλῶ δὲ αὐτὴν συνεχῶς γράψαι μοι
τὴν ὑγίειαν αὐτῆς …ει[…]…[…]πρ[…]…[…]…[…] παρακαλῶ δὲ αὐτὴν ἐὰν
σὺν Θεῷ οὐκ ἀνέλθῃ ἡ σὴ ἀδελφικὴ δεσποτεία γράψαι μοι τὸ ἐντολικὸν αὐτῆς ἵνα
εὕρω ἀντιποιηθῆναι τῶν λοιπῶν ὑπολειφθέντων ἡμῖν πραγμάτων καὶ μὴ
κλεισθῇ ἡ οἶκος ὑμῶν. γράψῃ μοι δὲ τὸ τί θέλει εἰς λόγον αὐτῆς καὶ εἰς λόγον
τῶν δούλων αὐτῆς εἰς γνῶσιν καὶ πέμψω αὐτῇ ἵνα μὴ ἀναγκασθῇ ἀλλαχόθεν
δανεῖσθαι καὶ δοῦναι διπλὰ εἰς ἁπλά. παρακαλῶ δὲ αὐτὴν γράψαι τῇ κοινῇ
δεσποίνῃ τῇ μητρὶ ὑμῶν ὅπως ἀνέλθῃ ἐπεί, μὰ τὸν δεσπότην Θεόν, ἐν Ὀξυρύγχῳ
ἐστὶν ἐξ οὗ κατῆλθεν εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἡ σὴ λαμπρὰ ἀδελφότης κλαίουσα
καὶ θλιβομένη καὶ ἀνιαζομένη ὡς προεῖπον ἐξ οὗ ἐξῆλθεν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς.
παντὶ οὖν τρόπῳ ει προκ…σχ…[…]κ[…]ἀνελθεῖν ἡ σὴ λαμπρὰ ἀδελφότης
τέως ποιῆσαί μοι τὸ ἐντολικὸν ἵνα εὕρω προθύμως Θεοῦ συνπράττοντος
καὶ συνάρσει τοῦ κυρίου Κοσμᾶ τοῦ ἐμβολάτορος φροντίσαι τῶν λοιπῶν ὑπολειφθέντων ἡμῖν πραγμάτων. ταῦτα γράφω πλεῖστα προσκυνῶν καὶ
ἀσπαζόμενος τὰ ἴχνη τῆς ὑμετέρας λαμπρᾶς ἀδελφότητος ἄχρι θέας, δέσποτα.
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…Translations (1)
[recto]
† I have written on another occasion too to your brotherly lordship, through the symmachos (courier) of the attendants, about its expenses. I urge it to write to me continually about its health […] I urge it, if, God willing, your brotherly lordship does not come up, to write me its letter of authorization so that I may be able to take charge of the remaining affairs left to us, and so that your house may not be closed. Let it write to me what it wants for its own account and for the account of its slaves, for my information, and I will send it, so that it may not be forced to borrow elsewhere and pay double for single. I urge it also to write to our common lady, your mother, that she should come up, since, by the Lord God, she has been in Oxyrhynchus since your illustrious brotherhood went down to Alexandria, weeping and distressed and grieved, as I said before, since it departed from her. In every way therefore […] your illustrious brotherhood to come up; meanwhile to make me the letter of authorization so that I may readily, with God's help and with the assistance of lord Kosmas the embolator, take care of the remaining affairs left to us. I write this, making many obeisances and kissing the footprints of your illustrious brotherhood until I see you, master.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 36080 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.ant;2;95 tier-1
- HGV-Text 36080 tier-1
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