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p.brookl.18 IIIOberägypten
Business Letter via HGV-meta
Business letter about a grain purchase and a loan of chickling-peas. A fragmentary business letter concerning a merchant named Philoumenos, a joint purchase of grain in which a woman named Apollonia had first claim but refused the city price, and a loan of half an artaba of chickling-peas for the addressee's farmer in the Arabia district. The writer closes by forwarding an account of Ammonios and a note of Horos. It dates to the 3rd century AD, from Upper Egypt. machine translation
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TM 30804.
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- Business Letter HGV-meta OberägyptenIII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[1]
[…]αρτ[…]
[…]…[…]
[…]…μ…του[…]
[…]των[…]ω
[…]…δ[…] χ …τατα
[…]γράμματα διʼ ὧν μοι
[…]ενος ἐμὲ […] ἀναστρεφομένου Φιλουμένου τοῦ ἐμπόρου
[…]ων σων[…]εντέρων
[…]ν τοῦ Φιλουμένου πρὸς σὲ γεί[…]ένου μαρτυρήσει σοι τοὺς καλάμους
[…]… καὶ ἐκ τούτου σικανθεὶς
[…] εὖ ποιεῖς ἀλλως ἀκούειν
[…]να ηκουσα καὶ διὰ
[…]τῶν ἐρχομένων μη
[… ? lines lost …]
[2]
ἔγραψάς μοι περὶ Ἀπολλωνίας
τὰ πρωτεῖα ἔχειν περὶ τῆς
συνωνῆς τοῦ σίτου, καὶ ἐλθοῦσα πρὶν πωλήσω
οὐκ ἀνῆξεν λαβεῖν πρὸς
τὴν πᾶσαν τιμὴν τῆς πόλεως
ἀλλʼ ἔλεγεν ὅτι πωλήσεις πρὸς
δραχμὰς λβ καὶ οὐκ ἐπέτρεψα
ἐμαυτῷ. καὶ ταῦτα·
ὁ γεωργός σου τῆς Ἀραβίας
ἐνώχλησέν με περὶ ἄρακος
καὶ οὐδαμοῦ ηὗρον καὶ
ἀνάγκην ἔσχον γενέσθαι
πρὸς αὐτὴν καὶ δέδωκέν
μοι ἡμιαρτάβιον εἰς χρῆσιν
λεγουσα ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ εὕρῃς
[…]…λῃστία ὑπὲρ το
[… ? lines lost …]
[3]
διεπεμψάμην οὖν
τὸν λόγον Ἀμμωνίου
καὶ το πιττάκιον Ὥρου.Translations (1)
[1]
[…] […] […] […] […] […]
[…] letter(s) through which to me […]
[…] me […] when Philoumenos the merchant was staying (?)
[…] your […] intestines (?)
[…] of Philoumenos to you […] will testify to you about the reeds
[…] and being vexed by this
[…] you do well to hear otherwise
[…] I heard and through
[…] of those coming not
[…]
[2]
You wrote to me about Apollonia, that she has the first claim regarding the joint purchase of the grain, and when she came before I sold, she did not consent to take it at the full price of the city, but said that you will sell at 32 drachmas, and I did not allow myself. And this too: your farmer in Arabia troubled me about chickling-peas, and I found them nowhere and was compelled to go to her, and she gave me half an artaba as a loan, saying that if you do not find […] robbery (?) on behalf of […]
[…]
[3]
So I have sent on the account of Ammonios and the note of Horos.
Connections
Found at
Upper Egypt
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30804 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.brookl;;18 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30804 tier-1
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