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p.col.4.121 181 BCE
Letter January 11, 181 BC via APIS-papyrus
Letter demanding payment of arrears on an orchard lease. A letter from the official Lysimachos to Leontiskos, Thymos and Tesenouphis demanding immediate payment of 13 talents still owed on their lease of an orchard, including sums for which Harpalos had been their surety. He threatens to send men to bring them to Krokodilopolis if they do not pay at once; the letter dates to 181 BC in the Fayum. machine translation
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TM 43257.
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- Letter January 11, 181 BC APIS-papyrus 181 BCE
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Λυσίμαχος Λεοντίσκωι καὶ Θύμωι καὶ Τεσενούφει χαίρειν. οὐ διαγεγραφηκότες τὰ προσοφειλόμενα πρὸς τὴν μίσθωσιν τοῦ παραδείσου
σὺν οἷς ἐξεδέξατο ὑμᾶς Ἅρπαλος, τάλαντα ιγ, ἀγνώμονες ἔσεσθε. οὐ μὴν
δʼ ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν, εἰ μὴ ἅμα τῶι λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀνακομιεῖτε
τὰ ιγ τάλαντα
εἰς Κροκοδίλων πόλιν, ἐξαποστελοῦμεν τοὺς ἀνάξοντας ὑμᾶς
οὐχ ὡς ὑπολαμβάνετε.
ἔρρωσθε. ἔτους κδ Χοιὰκ ϛ
[v]
Λεοντίσκωι καὶ
Θύμωι καὶ Τεσενούφει
ἀποδοῦναι Λυσιμάχωι
διαγραφὴν μισθώσεως παραδείσου. Χοιὰχ ϛ.Translations (1)
[recto]
Lysimachos to Leontiskos, Thymos and Tesenouphis, greeting. By not having paid the sums still owed for the lease of the orchard, together with those for which Harpalos stood surety for you, 13 talents, you will be acting unreasonably. Nevertheless, even now, unless the moment you receive the letter you bring the 13 talents up to Krokodilopolis, we shall send out men to bring you up, not in the way you suppose.
Farewell. Year 24, Choiak 6.
[verso]
To Leontiskos and Thymos and Tesenouphis.
Deliver to Lysimachos.
Payment of the lease of the orchard. Choiak 6.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 43257 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.col;4;121 tier-1
- HGV-Text 43257 tier-1
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