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p.apoll.9 675 - 676 (?)

De Helladios: le topotérète communique une circulaire de l’émir Jordanès concernant les calfats en fuite via HGV-meta

Letter of Helladios forwarding the amir's circular on runaway caulkers. A letter from the topoteretes Helladios to Papas, pagarch of Apollonos Ano (Edfu), passing on orders from the dux and a circular of the amir Jordanes to all pagarchs of the Thebaid. Caulkers working on the boats at Babylon have fled, and they must be rounded up and sent back, with fines of 1 solidus and threats to life for anyone who hides or releases one. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ἵνα μάθῃ ἡ ἡμετέρα μεγαλοπρεπεστάτη ἀδελφότης ὡς χθές, ἥτις ἦν τετάρτη τοῦ παρόντος μηνός, ἐδεξάμην γράμματα παρὰ τοῦ δεσπότου μου τοῦ πανευφήμου δουκὸς διὰ Σεργίου τοῦ πεμφθέντος στρατιώτου χάριν τῶν φυγόντωνκαλαφατῶν ὡς, εἰ εὑρεθείη παρεάσαντες ἕνα καὶ μόνον, ἵνα δώσατε νομίσματα Α ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ κινδυνεύσατε εἰς τὴν ψυχὴν ὑμῶν. ἐάν δὲ εἰσὶν ξένοι καλαφάται εἰς τὴν παγαρχίαν ὑμῶν, καὶ τούτους κρατήσατε καὶ πέμψατε ὑπὸ ξυλομαγγάνον. ἴσον σιγελλίου πεμφθέντος μοι παρὰτοῦδεσπότου μου τοῦ εὐκλεεστάτου ἀμιρᾶ· † ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Θεοῦ, Ἰορδάνης τοῖς ἅπασι παγάρχοις Θηβαίδος· ἐπειδὴ οἱ καλαφάται οἱ κάμνοντες εἰς τοὺς καράβους Βαβυλῶνος ἔφυγαν, καὶ ἐπετρέψαμεν τῷ ἡμετέρῳ τοποτηρητῇ μὴ ἐᾶσαι ἕνα καὶ μόνον καλαφάτην καὶ μὴ πέμψαι τοῦτον πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἀλλὰ ὁ κρατῶν καλαφάτην ἢ κρύβων ἵνα δώσῃ νομίσματα Α, ἐὰν εὐπορεῖ, ἐπιτρέψαντες αὐτῷ ὑποδεῖξαι ἡμῖν τὸ παρὸν σιγέλλιν· λοιπὸν ὅστις οὐκ ἐκδίδῃ ἑαυτὸν καὶ πέμπει ὑμῖν ἕκαστον καλαφάτην ὄντα εἰς τὴν διοίκησιν αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὸ θεωρῆσαι καὶ ἀναγνωσθῆναι αὐτὸν τὸ τοιοῦτο σιγέλλιν, παρεάσας ἕνα καὶ μόνον, οὐ δεχόμεθα τὴν ὑπόστασιν αὐτοῦ ἀντὶ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ. λοιπὸν, ὡς λέλεκται, τοὺς καλαφάτας συνάξατε καὶ εἰς τὰ ἐξαλειπτικὰ σκάφη ἡμῶν πέμψατε. καὶ πρὸς τὸ ὑμᾶς μὴ ἀμφιβάλαι τῷ παρόντι σιγελλίῳ ἐχρησάμην. κατόπιν δὲ τῶν παρόντων μου γραμμάτων ὑπέταξα τὸ πεμφθέν μοι σιγέλλιν παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐκλεεστάτου ἀμιρᾶ διαδικ […] [v] † τῷ θεοφυλάκτῳμου δεσπότῃ καὶ ἀδελφῷ Παπᾷ τῷ παγάρχῳ Ἀπόλλωνος Ἄνω † Ἑλλάδιος †

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † So that our most magnificent brotherhood may know that yesterday, which was the fourth of the present month, I received a letter from my master the most praiseworthy dux through Sergios the soldier who was sent, concerning the caulkers who have fled, (saying) that if you are found to have let off even a single one, you will pay 1 solidus for him and will be in danger of your life. And if there are foreign caulkers in your pagarchy, seize these too and send them under a wooden pillory (?). Copy of the sigillion sent to me by my master the most glorious amir: † In the name of God, Jordanes to all the pagarchs of the Thebaid. Since the caulkers who work on the boats of Babylon have fled, and we have instructed our topoteretes not to let off a single caulker without sending him to us, but that whoever holds or hides a caulker shall pay 1 solidus, if he has the means, and we have instructed him to show you the present sigillion: therefore whoever does not give himself up (?) and send to you every caulker who is in his district after seeing and having read to him this sigillion, letting off even a single one, we will not accept his property in place of his life. Therefore, as has been said, gather the caulkers and send them to our caulking (?) boats. And so that you may have no doubt, I have used the present sigillion. Below my present letter I have appended the sigillion sent to me by the same most glorious amir […] […] [verso] † To my God-protected master and brother Papas, pagarch of Upper Apollonos, † Helladios †

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