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p.berl.frisk.6 26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 710Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)
Brief des Korrâ ben Šarik an Basileios via HGV-meta
Letter from Qurra ibn Sharik to Basileios forbidding sale of palm groves. An official letter from the Arab governor of Egypt, Qurra ibn Sharik, to Basileios, administrator of Aphrodito, forbidding unauthorized purchases of palm groves at low prices. Sales must be made only with the governor's written permission and at the fixed rate of 50 cubits per solidus, under threat of bodily and financial punishment. It was written in Mecheir of the 8th indiction, AD 710. machine translation
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TM 17682.
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- Brief des Korrâ ben Šarik an Basileios HGV-meta Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)26. Jan. - 24. Febr. 710
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
περὶ φοινικοδοκίων.
ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ θεοῦ. Κόρρα υἱὸς Σζερὶχ σύμβουλος
Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ Ἀφροδιτώ. εὐχαριστοῦμεν τῷ θεῷ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα·
ἐγνώσθη ἡμῖν ὡς πολλοί τινες ἀγοράζουσιν ἐν τῇ διοικήσει σου
φοινικοδόκια εἰς ὀλίγην τιμὴν ἄνευ ἐπιτροπῆς
καὶ ἡμετέρων γραμμάτων. καὶ ἐάν ἐστι τοῦτο ἀληθές, κατεφρόνησες
τῆς ψυχῆς σου καὶ στράταν δέδωκες κατά σου. δεχόμενος οὖν
τὰ παρόντα γράμματα μὴ συγχωρήσῃς παντοῖον τινὰ
ποιῆσαι ἀγορασίαν φοινικίων ἐν τῇ διοικήσει σου
εἰ μὴ διʼ ἡμετέρων γραμμάτων, καὶ ἡνίκα γράψωμεν πρός σε
περὶ ἀγορασίας οἱουδήποτε ἀνθρώπου ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων
φοινικοδοκίων, μὴ συγχωρήσῃς δοθῆναι εἰ μὴ κατὰ πεντήκοντα
πήχεις τοῦ νομίσματος, μὴ καταπιστεύων τινὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον
τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ σὺ διὰ σεαυτοῦ μεσάζων μετʼ ἀκριβείας πάσης,
ὅπως ὡς εἴρηται μὴ δοθῇ τινί τι ἐκ περιττοῦ τῆς διατιμήσεως
ἧς ὡρίσαμεν εἰς τὰ τοιαῦτα φοινικοδόκια. μὴ εὕρωμεν οὖν
ὅτι οἱ ἐπικείμενοι τοῦ τελωνίου Βαβυλῶνος ηὗράν σε
ἀπολύσαντα παντοῖον φοινικοδόκιν ἀπὸ τῆς διοικήσεώς σου
παντοίῳ προσώπῳ εἰ μὴ διʼ ἡμετέρων γραμμάτων,
ὡς πολλάκις εἴρηται, μήτε μὴν δοθῆναί τι ἄνωθεν τῆς
διατιμήσεως ἧς ἐξεθέμεθα ἐν γράμμασι καταγνωσθῇς.
παραλείψας τι τῆς ἡμετέρας κελεύσεως ἐν τούτοις
μέλλεις ἀπολαβεῖν ἐν σώματι καὶ βαλαντίῳ. ἐγράφη μηνὸς
Μεχεὶρ ἰνδικτίονος η.
[v]
Κόρρα υἱὸς Σζερὶχ σύμβουλος Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ Κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ.
μηνὸς[…]ἰνδικτίονος η. ἠνήχθη διὰ τοῦ[…]περὶ μὴ πωλῆσαι φοινικοδόκια.Translations (1)
[recto]
Concerning palm groves (?).
In the name of God. [Qurra son of Sharik, governor,]
to Basileios, administrator of Aphrodito. We give thanks to God, and after that:
It has become known to us that a great many people are buying palm groves in your district at a low price without authorization and without our letters. And if this is true, you have disregarded your own life and have opened a road against yourself. On receiving the present letter, therefore, do not permit anyone whatsoever to make a purchase of palms in your district except through our letters; and whenever we write to you concerning the purchase by any person of such palm groves, do not permit them to be given except at the rate of 50 cubits per solidus, not entrusting this matter to anyone, but mediating it yourself with all exactness, so that, as has been said, nothing is given to anyone in excess of the valuation which we have fixed for such palm groves. Let us not find, then, that the officials in charge of the customs house of Babylon have found you releasing any palm grove whatsoever from your district to any person whatsoever except through our letters, as has often been said, nor indeed that anything has been given above the valuation which we set out in writing, lest you be condemned. If you neglect anything of our command in these matters, you will suffer in body and in purse. Written in the month of Mecheir, indiction 8.
[verso]
Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito.
[Month …] indiction 8. Brought by […] [concerning] not selling palm groves.
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Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 17682 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.berl.frisk;;6 tier-1
- HGV-Text 17682 tier-1
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