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p.cair.zen.3.59379

Letter to Zenon from Amenneus via HGV-meta

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ζήνωνι χαίρειν Ἀμεννεὺς ὑοφορβός. ἐν τῶι συνταγῆναι ἡμῖν ἀναθρέψαι τὰ εἰς τὰ Ἀρσινόεια ἱερεῖα θεὶς οὖν τὸ ἱμάτιον ἐνέχυρον ἐπριάμην καὶ ἀνέθρεψα, ὅπως μηθέν μοι ἐγκαλῆις. ὡς δὲ κατήγαγον αὐτὰ ἀπελθὼν εἰς τὴν ν ἀπόλωλεν ἡμῶν ἱερεῖα β, καὶ εὗρον τὸν ἔχοντα, ὁ δὲ οὐθὲν ἡμῖν ἀποδέδωκεν μέχρι ἂν σὺ γράψηις, καὶ ὑπὸ κροκοδίλουκορκοδίλου κσθαι α οὐκ ἀφηιρούμην αὐτὰ νιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τῆι κώμηι ὅτι μὴ ἀφέληι. γράψον οὖν αὐτοῖς καὶ Τιμοθέωι ὅπως μηθὲν τοιοῦτο γίνηται. Σες δέ, περὶ οὗ σοι ἔδωκα τὴν ἔντευξιν, οὐκ ἐᾶι με νέμειν τὰ ἱερεῖα. εὐτύχει εὐτύχει. ἔστιν τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν ὑφῃρημένωνὑφειρημένων τὰ ἱερεῖα Κπις Ψενπεσῶτος κώμαρχος ἱερεῖον α Ἀριστόβουλος ἱερεῖον α ὃν παρέδειξα τοῖς φυλακίταις καὶ νυκτὸς απωλ ἀπώλετο ἱερεῖον α περὶ οὗ ἐνέτυχον τοῖς φυ λακίταις καὶ αὐτοὶ ἔφασαν εἶναι παρὰ Λευκίππωι.

Translations (1)

EN scholarly
To Zenon, greetings, Ammeneus, swineherd. Per your instructions to us for rearing the pigs for the festival of Arsinoe, having put my himation down as a pledge, I bought the pigs and reared them, so that you might not find fault with me. But as I was bringing them down, going off into the… 2 of our pigs were lost, and I found the man who had them; but he will return neither of them to us until you write to him, and by a crocodile… I did not take them away for myself… by those in the village that he may not take them (?). So write to them, and to Timotheos, so that no such thing may happen. And Se[..].s, concerning whom I gave you the petition, is not allowing me to graze the pigs. Farewell. These are the names of the men who have taken the pigs for themselves: K…[.]pis, son of Psenpesos, kômarchês, 1 pig. Aristoboulos, 1 pig; I pointed him out to the phylakitai. And at night 1 pig was lost, concerning which I went to see the phylakitai, and they said that it was at Leukippos’ house. (J. Bauschatz, Law and Enforcement, p. 268)

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Found at Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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