no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.apoll.37
De Platon: affaire judiciaire et visite des Sarrasins via HGV-meta
Letter from Platon to the pagarch Papas about a lawsuit and Saracen envoys. Letter from Platon to Papas, count and pagarch, about a woman's lawsuit with an opponent over slaves, the release of a deacon, and demands from the amir conveyed by four Saracen envoys of the Caliph for the purchase of many goods. Platon complains of his distress at the situation. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 39098.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- De Platon: affaire judiciaire et visite des Sarrasins HGV-meta unbekannt651
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
† τὰ διὰ τοῦ εὐλαβεστάτου διακόνου γραφέντα παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας θεοφυλάκτου ἀδελφότητος ἐδεξάμην καὶ πα[…]
αὐτῷ τὸν ἀποκρισιάριον εισ…[…]αν αὐτοῦ παραγγείλας αὐτῷ[…] τινος ἕως τῆς κοινῆς μητρός·
καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐποίησα αὐτὴν τὴν κοινὴν μητέρα ἀπολῦσαι τὸν διάκονον, καὶ οὐ βραδύνω σὺν θεῷ ἀπολῦσαι ὑμῖν αὐτὸν
μετὰ τοῦ πρακτέου· καὶ ἐπειδὴ λόγον ἔδωκα αὐτῇ ὅτι πάντως γράφω τῷ ἀδελφῷ μου τῷ Κύρῳ Παπᾷ, ἵνα
διαλάβῃ ἡ ὑμετέρα θεοφύλακτος ἀδελφότης τὸ πρᾶγμα αὐτῆς μετὰ τοῦ ἀντιδίκου αὐτῆς χάριν τῶν ἀνδραπόδων· ἰδοὺ
οὖν ἀνῆλθεν Ἀνανίας ὁ πάλλιξ· ἐὰν ἀρέσκῃ ὑμῖν ἀπαλλάξατε αὐτήν, οὐ νομίζω γὰρ ὅτι κακῶς ζητεῖ·
ἐνεφάνησέν μοι δὲ ἐπιστολὴν τῆς ὑμετέρας θεοφυλάκτου ἀδελφότητος ὡς τὸ πρᾶγμα ἀνήκει τῷ Κύρῳ
Χριστοφόρῳ· καὶ τίς ὤφειλεν[…] εἰ μὴ ἡ θεοφύλακτος ὑμῶν ἀδελφότης;
μετὰ τὸ ἐμὲ ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ Κοντραλάτων ἄλλας ἀποκρίσεις ἐδεξάμην τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν τοῦ πανευφήμου ἀμιρᾶ
διὰ τεσσάρων Σαρακηνῶν τοῦ Ἀμιρᾶ τῶν Πιστῶν περὶ ἀγορασίας πολλῶν πραγμάτων· καὶ οὐκ συνεχώρησε
ἀπʼ αὐτῶν σήμερον· γευσάσθω ὕδατος, καὶ ὄντως ὁ Σατανᾶς ἤνεγκέν μοι ει[…]
[v]
διότι οὐκ ἐσιάνθην ποτέ, οὔτε ἐθλίβην εἰ μὴ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος. γνήσιε ἀσπάζομαι τοὺς θεοφυλάκτους
καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτους ὑμᾶς διὰ τοῦ γράμματος †
τῷ θεοφυλάκτῳ μου δεσπότῃ καὶ ἀδελφῷ Παπᾷ τῷ μεγίστῳ κόμετι πολιτευομέῳ καὶ παγάρχῳ † Πλάτων †Translations (1)
[recto]
† I received what was written by your God-protected brotherhood through the most pious deacon, and […] to him the representative (apokrisiarios) […] of his, instructing him […] someone as far as the common mother;
and see, I have made the common mother herself release the deacon, and I will not delay, with God, to send him off to you
with the business to be done. And since I gave her my word that I would certainly write to my brother the lord Papas, so that
your God-protected brotherhood might take up her case with her opponent concerning the slaves; see,
Ananias the soldier (pallix) has gone up. If it pleases you, settle the matter for her, for I do not think she makes a wrongful claim.
A letter of your God-protected brotherhood was shown to me saying that the matter belongs to the lord
Christophoros. And who ought […] if not your God-protected brotherhood?
After I left Kontralaton I received further replies from our master the most illustrious amir
through four Saracens of the Commander of the Faithful concerning the purchase of many goods; and he did not grant release
from them today. Let him taste water, and truly Satan brought upon me […]
[verso]
because I was never vexed, nor was I ever distressed except at the present time. True friend, I greet you, God-protected
and most magnificent, by this letter. †
To my God-protected master and brother Papas, the most great count, councillor and pagarch, † Platon †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 39098 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.apoll;;37 tier-1
- HGV-Text 39098 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 39098 (see that record)