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p.brem.14 Hermopolis (?)
Brief (III) des Hermaios an Apollonios via HGV-meta
Letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios about flooding and sluice works. Letter from Hermaios to the strategos Apollonios reporting on the Nile flood and irrigation works: the land is flooded, so canal repair was unnecessary, but he has requested 50 workmen from the peace officer of Poeis for work on a new sluice. He will inspect the islands at Teruthis with the farmers at dawn. machine translation
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- Brief (III) des Hermaios an Apollonios HGV-meta Hermopolis (?)113
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Transcription
[r,1]
Ἑρμαῖος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιωτάτωι
χαίρειν.
οὐκ ἐγένετο χρεία ἀναλήψεως διώρυγος·
τῆς τύχης σου συνπνεούσης πάντα
λελίμνασται. ὁ ἀπό σοῦ φύλαξ εὗρέ με
ἐπὶ τῆς καινῆς ἀφέσεως ἐκζητοῦντα
ἐργάτας εἰς ἐπένχωσιν. ἐπεὶ μὴ ὕψωται τῆι οἰκοδομῇ ἡ ἄφεσις καὶ νῦν οἱ
συσχεθέντες ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ εἰς τοῦτο ἐργάται
[r,2]
οὐκ εἶχον σκαφεῖα ἢ σφυρίδας, ἔπεμψα
πρὸς εἰρηνοφύλακα Πώεως, ᾧι φησιν
ἀνήκειν πέμψαι ἐργάτας ν, εἴκοσι μὲν εἰς
τὴν τοῦ χοὸς ἄρσιν, λ δὲ εἰς τήρησιν.
εἰς Τερῦθιν καθεύδω, ἵνα μετὰ τῶν γεωργῶν τὰς νήσους ὄρθρου καταμάθω, ἐπεὶ
μὴ ἔφθην. τὸ δεῖγμα Πώεως Τερύθεως
αἴρω ἔχων μετʼ ἐμοῦ τὸν κατάγοντα.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου.
[v]
Ἀπολλωνίωι στρατηγῷ Ἀπολλωνοπολίτου ἙπτακωμίαςTranslations (1)
Hermaios to the most honoured Apollonios, greetings.
There was no need for taking up (repairing) a canal; with your fortune blowing favourably, everything has been flooded. The guard sent by you found me at the new sluice searching for workmen for the embankment. Since the sluice has not been raised by the building work, and now the workmen detained by me for this purpose
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had no spades or baskets, I sent to the eirenophylax of Poeis, whose duty he says it is, to send 50 workmen, 20 for carrying the earth and 30 for guarding. I am sleeping at Teruthis, so that at dawn I may inspect the islands together with the farmers, since I did not arrive in time. I am taking up the sample of Poeis and Teruthis, having with me the man who brings it down.
I pray for your health, my lord.
[verso]
To Apollonios, strategos of the Apollonopolite Heptakomia.
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- TM-Text 19599 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.brem;;14 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19599 tier-1
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