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p.cair.zen.3.59387 258 - 256 v.Chr.Alexandria (?)
Fragment of a letter from Apollonios via HGV-meta
Letter of Apollonios about clearing, surveying and sowing brushwood land. Fragment of a letter, apparently from Apollonios the finance minister, concerning land on his estate that had been burnt and must again be cleared of brushwood despite the money already spent. He has written to Zoilos to send surveyors and royal scribes to measure the whole area and orders the recipient to sow it all, leaving none uncultivated. Part of the Zenon archive, 258-256 BC. machine translation
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TM 1030.
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- Fragment of a letter from Apollonios HGV-meta Alexandria (?)258 - 256 v.Chr.
- Letter from Apollonios the dioiketes to Zenon APIS-papyrus Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philade258 - 256 B.C.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]οψ[…]
[…]κεν ε…[…]
ἐμπεπυρικέναι ἀρούρας ε[…][…]
τὴν δὲ λοιπὴν […]
κοπῆναι πάλιν οὐθὲν ἥσσω[…]
[…]…[…]φ[…]ο ἀρχαίως ἀν[…]
ἀποστείλω γεωμέτρας[…]
τούτων ε…[…]
πέφηνεν ἡ ξυλῖτις τῆς πρότερον[…]
γραφείσης καὶ ταῦτα τοσοῦτον ἀργύριον
ἀνηλωκότων ἡμῶν εἰς τὴν κ[…]
ἀλλὰ γεγράφαμεν Ζωίλωι πέμψαι πρὸς σὲ τοὺς
γεωμέτρας καὶ τοὺς βασιλικοὺς γραμματέας τοὺς
ἐξ ἀρχῆς γεωμετρήσαντας, ὅπως[…]
γεωμετρήσητε σύμπασαν τὴν[…]
καὶ κατάσπειρον καὶ ὅπως πρὸς ἡμᾶς[…]
μηδὲ ἄσπορον μηδεμίαν […]
ἔρρωσο.[…]Translations (1)
[… lines lost …]
[…] […]
[…] […]
to have burnt (?) […] arouras […]
and the rest […]
to be cut again no less […]
[…] formerly […]
I am to send surveyors […]
of these […]
the brushwood land has turned out (?) […] than that previously […] recorded, and this although we have spent so much money on the […]
But we have written to Zoilos to send to you the surveyors and the royal scribes who originally surveyed it, so that you may survey the whole […] and sow it, and so that to us […] and not any (land) unsown […]
Farewell.
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Alexandria
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 1030 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.cair.zen;3;59387 tier-1
- HGV-Text 1030 tier-1
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