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p.apoll.70
Lettre privée via HGV-meta
Letter complaining of neglect by the writer's masters. A fragmentary private letter in which the writer complains bitterly that neither a certain woman nor his 'God-protected masters' have sent him a single line to learn whether he is alive or dead, though he has written to them repeatedly. He blames his sins for the neglect and notes that people mock him as having no one in the world. It is dated Phaophi 30 of an indiction year 13. machine translation
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TM 39129.
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- Lettre privée HGV-meta unbekannt651
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[…]ὤφειλεν πέμψαι […]
[…]λον ὅτι εχ[…]ας σήμερον ἀποκεκλεισμένος […]
[…]παντελῶς οὔτε γραμμὸν αὐτῆς οὔτε ὑμῶν τῶν θεοφυλάκτων μου δεσποτῶν […]
[…]μαθεῖν ὅτι ζῶ ἢ ἀποθνῄσκω, ἐμοῦ γράψαντος τοῖς δεσπόταις μου καὶ αὐτῇ διαφόρως[…]
[…] ὑμεῖς ἴστε· οὔτε γὰρ εὐθυμῶ τι ἕτερον γράψαι ἐκ τῶν ἐπικειμένων μοι εἰ μὴ[…]
[…]ν ἀνθρώπων λεγόντων μοι ἐφʼ ἑκάστης ὅτι ὣς οὐκ ἔχεις τινα ἄνθρωπον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς[…]
[…]αν σε οὕτως.
[v]
[…]τοῦτο ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις μου ἐπιγράφω, ἐπεὶ γνωρίζω πολλοὺς ξένους μὴ ἔχοντας[…]
[…]… ἀπὸ τῶν θεωρησάντων αὐτούς· οὔτε γὰρ ὑπουργὸν οὔτε γνήσιον εἶδον ἀπ…[…]
[…]τοὺςθεοφυλάκτους μου δεσπότας ἐὰν προσδοκᾶτε προσκυνηθῆναι ἐξ ἐμοῦ. Φαῶφι λ ἰνδικτίονος ιγ †Translations (1)
[recto]
[…] ought to have sent […]
[…] that […] today shut up (?) […]
[…] at all, neither a line from her nor from you, my God-protected masters, […]
[…] to learn whether I am alive or dying, although I have written to my masters and to her in various ways […]
[…] you know. For I am not in the mood to write anything else because of what weighs upon me, except […]
[…] people saying to me every day: 'As if you had no one on earth […]'
[…] you thus.
[verso]
[…] this I put down to my sins, since I know many strangers who do not have […]
[…] from those who saw them. For I have seen neither a servant nor a kinsman (?) from […]
[…] my God-protected masters, if you expect to be greeted with respect by me. Phaophi 30, indiction 13. †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 39129 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.apoll;;70 tier-1
- HGV-Text 39129 tier-1
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