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p.bodl.1.63 VI - VII
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter asking for a small knife left behind in Alexandria to be sent. A fragmentary private letter addressed respectfully to a superior ("your lordship"). The writer explains that on leaving Alexandria a small knife or tool was left at the house where they had stayed, and asks that a guard hand it over and that it be sent to him by the letter-carrier. machine translation
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Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 38169.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta unbekanntVI - VII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[… 1 line lost …]
[…]τοὺς πόδας τῆς ὑμετέρας δεσποτείας […]
[…] τα ὅτι ἐξελθὼν Ἀλεξανδρείας σμιλίον επ[…]
[…] τοῦ οἴκου ἐν ᾧ ἐμείναμεν καὶ παρακαλει…[…]
[…]…[…]…ον ὑπομεῖναι ἕως τῶν ἐκεῖ καὶ παρασκευα[…]
[…]φρουρὸν ἀναδοῦναι τὸ σμιλίον καὶ πέμψαι μοι ἐνταῦθα […]
[…]διὰ τοῦ γραμματηφόρου, ἤδη γὰρ ἐδ…[…]
[…]… τον πέμψαι, πέμψον καὶ παρεχω[…]
[…]τῆς παρακλήσεως, οἶδεν γὰρ ὁ […]
[…]…[…] ἀσπάζομαι τοὺς τιμίους πόδας[…]
[…] μετὰ τῶν τέκνων κ[…]Translations (1)
[… 1 line lost …]
[…] the feet of your lordship […]
[…] that on leaving Alexandria a small knife (?) […]
[…] of the house in which we stayed, and I ask (?) […]
[…] to wait until the things there and to prepare (?) […]
[…] the guard to hand over the small knife and to send it to me here […]
[…] through the letter-carrier, for already […]
[…] to send, send it, and […]
[…] of the request, for […] knows […]
[…] I greet the honoured feet […]
[…] with the children […]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 38169 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.bodl;1;63 tier-1
- HGV-Text 38169 tier-1
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