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p.col.8.240 IV - VOxyrhynchites (?)
Business Letter via APIS-papyrus
Business letter to a superior about a leased workshop and its equipment. Fragmentary business letter addressed to a superior ('master', 'your Excellency') about a leased workshop, its equipment such as weights, hammers and pots, and sums of money in solidi and myriads of denarii. It mentions a man named Kyros and the addressee's own rent-collectors. Probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome, 4th-5th century AD. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 32870.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Business Letter APIS-papyrus Oxyrhynchites (?)350 CE – 450 CE
- Business Letter HGV-meta Oxyrhynchites (?)IV - V
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] δεσπότῃ
[…] … […]ουουκα
[…]ως … […]υρεα
[…]…ου νομισμάτια γ 𐅵 οτ[…]θοικιεν
[…]εμου νομισμάτια γ 𐅵 καὶ αναεαν
[…] ἐστιν […] το…σηνας καὶ ἐν τούτῳ
[…]κιν[…]του φρόντισον ἐμοῦ τοῦ
[…]ωσας […] ἐργαστήριόν μου Κύρῳ τῷ
[…]…οτ…ιστικον ἐπεὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα
[…] ἔβαλλεν ἔσω
[…]ἐμβρύμια καὶ στρωτῆρας καὶ μωνα
[…]καὶ σήκωμα καὶ σφυρὰ καὶ χύτρας
[…]… καὶ στακτὴν καὶ κεντροφάνια παν[…] ἐν τῷ ἐργαστηρίῳ οἰκοῦσιν ἔσω τόδε
[…]ς δύο μυριάδες ρ καὶ τὸ τῶν ποτήρων κεράτιον α 𐅵
[…]ἡ σὴ λαμπρότης ὅτι ἀπώλεσεν. ἔχω
[…]ἐμισθωσάμην τὸ ἐργαστήριον παρὰ τῆς ε[…]ν κατὰ τὴν σήμερον ἡμέραν […]
[…]…ν ἤδε ἐσκόπουν ὅτι τοιαύτας […]
[…] τῶν ἰδικῶν ἐνοικολόγων σου οἱ π[…]
[…] ἀπόκρισιν αὐτοῦ οὐδεὶς ἀποστατο[…]
[…]… καθὼς ἐσκοποῦμεν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν […]
[…]…ει αἰσθανόμεθα ἐργαστήριον πλη[…]
[…]υ
[v]
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
[...]
[...] master
[...] ... [...]
[...] ... [...]
[...] 3 1/2 solidi [...]
[...] 3 1/2 solidi and [...]
[...] is [...] and in this
[...] take care of me, the
[...] my workshop to Kyros the
[...] since the matter
[...] ⟦my apprentice (?)⟧ was putting inside
[...] embrymia (?) and coverings and [...]
[...] and a weight and hammers and pots
[...] and lye (?) and kentrophania (?) [...] they live in the workshop inside this
[...] two, 100 myriads, and for the cups 1 1/2 carats
[...] your Excellency, that he has lost (it). I have
[...] I leased the workshop from the [...] on this very day [...]
[...] I was already considering that such [...]
[...] of your own rent-collectors, who [...]
[...] his answer, no one [...]
[...] as we were considering that it is not [...]
[...] we perceive a workshop full (?) [...]
[...]
[...]
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchites
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 32870 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.col;8;240 tier-1
- HGV-Text 32870 tier-1
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