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p.brookl.19 VII - VIII
Letter of Theophilos via HGV-meta
Letter from Theophilos to Kalatos about a linen-weaver's debt. A short Christian-era letter from Theophilos to his "brother" Kalatos. He asks him to track down Perses, a linen-weaver who holds 2 pounds of worked linen, and make him hand over either the linen or 4 keratia before he leaves the estate. It dates to the 7th or 8th century AD. machine translation
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TM 38738.
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- Letter of Theophilos HGV-meta unbekanntVII - VIII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
† θέλησον ψηλαφῆσαι τὸν Πέρσον τὸν λινόυφον ὅτι ἔχει δύο
λίτρας λιναρίων εἰργασμένων· παρασκεύασον οὖν αὐτὸν
ἢ δῶσαι τὰ τοιαῦτα λινάρια ἢ τὰ τέσσερα κεράτια· ἀλλὰ ὡς εἶπον
τοῦτο ποίησον ἡ ἀδελφότης σου, ἐπειδὴ εἶπάν μοι ὅτι θέλει
ἀναχωρῆσαι ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας· λοιπὸν ταῦτα λάβῃς ἐξ αὐτοῦ.
[v]
ἀποδοθήτω τῷ ἐμῷ ἀδελφῷ Καλάτῳ Θεώφιλον.Translations (1)
[recto]
† Please search out Perses the linen-weaver, because he has 2 pounds of worked linen threads. So get him either to give such linen threads or the 4 keratia. But as I said, do this, your brotherliness, since they told me that he wants to withdraw from the estate. So then, get these things from him.
[verso]
To be delivered to my brother Kalatos, (from) Theophilos.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 38738 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.brookl;;19 tier-1
- HGV-Text 38738 tier-1
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