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p.fay.111 Euhemeria (Arsinoites)
Letter from Gemellus to Epagathus via HGV-meta
Letter from Gemellus to Epagathos about lost piglets, lotus and olive groves. A letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his estate manager Epagathos, rebuking him for the loss of two piglets that died from being driven on foot, and ordering him to buy 20 artabas of lotus at Dionysias and to see to the flooding and watering of olive groves and plants. It dates to year 15 of Domitian, from Euhemeria in the Fayum. machine translation
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TM 10776.
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- Letter from Gemellus to Epagathus HGV-meta Euhemeria (Arsinoites)95
- Letter to servant Epagathus APIS-papyrus Euhemeria13 Sept. 95 A.D. or 10 May 96 A.D.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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Λούκιος Βελλῆνος Γέμελλος
Ἐπαγαθῶι τῶι ἰδίωι χαίρειν.
μέμφομαί σε μεγάλως. ἀπώλεσας χοιρίδια δύο ἀπὸ τοῦ
σκυλμοῦ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἔχων
ἐν τῇ κώμῃ ἐργατικὰ κτήνη δέκα . Ἡρακλίδας ὁ ὀνηλάτης τὸ αἰτίωμα περιεποίησε λέγων ὅτι σὺ εἴρηκας
πεζῶι τὰχοιρίδια ἐλάσαι.
περισσὸν ἐνετειλάμην σοι
εἰς Διονυσιάδα μεῖναι δύο ἡμέρας ἕως ἀγοράσῃς
λωτίνου ἀρτάβας κ. λέγουσι εἶναι τὸ λώτινον ἐν τῇ Διονυσιάδι ἐκ δραχμῶν ιη. ὡς ἐὰν βλέπῃς τὴν τιμὴν πάντως ἀγόρασον τὰς τοῦ λωτίνου
ἀρτάβας κ, ἀναγκαῖον ἥγησαι.
τὸν λιμνασμὸν δίωξον
τῶν ἐλαιώνων τῶν πάντων καὶ τάξον εἰς τὴν Σένθεως ἐργάτην χλωρὸν
λιμνάζειν, καὶ τὸν στίχον τῶν φυτῶν τῶν
ἐν τῷ προφήτῃ πότισον,
μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσῃς.
ἔρρωσο. ἔτους ιε Αὐτοκράτορος
Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ
Γερμανικοῦ, μηνὸς Γερμανικ
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Ἐπαγαθῶι τῶι ἰδίωι
ἀπὸ Λουκίου Βελλήνου Γεμέλλου.Translations (1)
[recto]
Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his own Epagathos, greetings.
I blame you greatly. You lost two piglets through the fatigue of the journey, though you have ten working animals in the village. Herakleides the donkey-driver shifted the blame, saying that you had told him to drive the piglets on foot. I gave you strict orders to stay at Dionysias for two days until you bought 20 artabas of lotus. They say the lotus at Dionysias is at 18 drachmas. Whatever you see the price to be, by all means buy the 20 artabas of lotus; consider it necessary. Press on with the flooding of all the olive groves, and assign a fresh(?) labourer to the flooding at the (plot) of Sentheus, and water the row of plants in the 'Prophet' plot. So do not do otherwise.
Farewell. Year 15 of Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Germanikeios [...]
[verso]
To his own Epagathos, from Lucius Bellenus Gemellus.
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Euhemeria
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 10776 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.fay;;111 tier-1
- HGV-Text 10776 tier-1
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