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Brief des Architekten Herodes an Apollonios via HGV-meta
Letter from the architect Herodes to Apollonios about building works. Letter from Herodes, an architect or builder, to his superior Apollonios, reporting on woodwork for temples and a guest-house and on doors contracted through Apollonios' steward, delayed by the steward's mourning for his daughter. Herodes asks leave to travel by boat to Hierakion's brother while officials go to the assize at Memphis, and reports praying for Apollonios at the Isis festival. machine translation
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- Brief des Architekten Herodes an Apollonios HGV-meta Hermopolis (?)118
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Transcription
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Ἡρώδης[…] Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι
κυρίωι χαίρειν.
οὐ πάντως λανθάνει σε τὰ ἐπείγοντα
ξυλικὰ ἔργα τῶν τε ἱερῶν καὶ τῆς ξενίας,
ὧν χάριν μόγις ἐπεστήσαμεν τῇ β
τῶν ἐπαγομένων τὰ τῆς συμφωνίας
θυρώματα τοῦ ἐν τῶι αἰθρίωι κοιτῶνος
καὶ γνώμης γέγονεν ὁ ἐπίτροπός σου
ἐκ προτροπῆς μου συμφωνῆσαι τὰς
δύο θύρας τοῦ τε συμποσίου καὶ τῶν
προσκηνίων, ἵνα ἀβαρῶς γένηται καὶ
μὴ ἀπὸ ἡμερησίων μισθῶν, τὸ γὰρ τετράγωνον πέπρισται πρὸς ταῦτα. διὰ
δὲ τὸ ἀπογεγενῆσθαι τὴν τούτου
θυγατέρα ἐπέσχηκε τῶι ἔργωι, ἕως ἂν
ἀποθῆται τὸ πένθος, πρὸς καὶ τὸν
κουφισμὸν τῶν δημοσίων ἔργων.
παρακαλῶ σε οὖν, κύριε, ἐπιτρέψαι μοι
πρὸς τὰς διακένους ἡμέρας κατελθεῖν πρὸς τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἱερακίωνος
τῶι πλοίωι, ἄλλῳ γὰρ καιρῶι οὐ δυνήσομαι πεζεύειν τοὺς τόπους […]
διὰ τὴν ἐκπόρθησιν τῶν τόπων
καὶ τὴν σπάνιν[…]
[…]…[…]
γων μετακεκλημένων ἀπελθεῖν εἰς Μέμφιν πραγματικῶν πρὸς τὸν διαλογισμόν, ἵνα εὐκαιρίαν λαβὼν ἐπιγνῶ, τί πράσσει Ἱερακίων. δύο γὰρ ἡμερῶν ἐστι τὸ διάστημα. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ἐποίησα
πρὸς ταῖς θυσίαις τῆς Ἴσιδος τῆι νυκτὶ
γενεσίοις αὐτῆς καὶ μᾶλλον προσηυχόμην ποιεῖν σε τὰς ἁδροτάτας προκοπάς.
ἔρρωσο, κύριε. Θὼθ α.
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Ἀπολλωνίωι κυρίωιTranslations (1)
[recto]
Herodes […] to Apollonios his lord, greetings.
The urgent woodwork of the temples and of the guest-house is surely not unknown to you, on account of which we barely managed, on the 2nd of the epagomenal days, to set up the door-frames of the contract for the bedroom in the atrium; and your steward, at my urging, came to the decision to contract for the two doors of the dining room and of the porches (?), so that it may be done without burden and not on daily wages, for the squared timber has been sawn for these. But because his daughter has died, he has held back from the work until he lays aside his mourning, and also for the relief of the public works.
I ask you therefore, lord, to allow me, for the free days, to go down by the boat to the brother of Hierakion, for at another time I shall not be able to travel the district on foot […] because of the devastation of the district and the scarcity […]
[…]
[…] since the officials have been summoned to go to Memphis for the assize, so that, taking the opportunity, I may find out what Hierakion is doing. For the distance is two days. I made your act of obeisance at the sacrifices of Isis on the night of her birthday festival, and I prayed all the more that you might make the fullest progress.
Farewell, lord. Thoth 1.
[verso]
To Apollonios, lord.
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Hermopolis
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- TM-Text 19600 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.brem;;15 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19600 tier-1
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