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p.fay.115 21. Aug. 101Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Letter from Gemellus to Epagathus via HGV-meta

Letter from Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to Epagathos about piglets for a birthday feast. A letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his estate manager Epagathos, ordering him to buy two well-bred piglets to fatten for a sacrifice at the birthday celebration of Sabinus, and to send urgently a strong, broad strap for the ox team to Aphroditopolis. It was written on 21 August 101 in the Fayum. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] […]θαι …τοεα[…]δαπάνης καὶ […]…λυς φύλακα. ἀγόρασον ἡμῖν δύο εὐγενῆ χοιρίδια εἰς τροφὴν εἰς οἶκον ἐπεὶ μέλλομεν α…χο… μον χοιρίδια θύειν εἰς τὰ γενέσια Σαβίνου. μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσῃς. ἔρρωσο. ἀσπάζου Ὀρσενοῦφιν καὶ Ἥρωνα καὶ τοὺς ἐν οἴκῳ πάντας ἔτους δ Τραιανοῦ τοῦ κυρίου, μηνὸς Καισαρίου κη. πέμψεις μοι ωειρι τῶι ταυρικῶι εἰς Ἀφροδίτην πόλιν στερεὸν καὶ πλατύ, ἐπεὶ κέκοπται ὃ ἔχει ουρι καὶ κολάζεται ὁ ζευγηλάτης, ἐξαυτῆς. [v] ἀπόδος Ἐπαγαθῷ ἀπὸ Λουκίου Βελλήνου Γεμέλλου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [… lines lost …] […] […] expense and […] guard. Buy us two well-bred piglets for feeding at home, since we are going to sacrifice […] piglets at the birthday feast of Sabinus. So do not do otherwise. Farewell. Greet Orsenouphis and Heron and all those at home. Year 4 of Trajan the lord, month Kaisarios 28. You will send me a strap (?) for the bull team to Aphroditopolis, strong and broad, since the one it has is cut through (?) and the ploughman is being punished; at once. [verso] Deliver to Epagathos from Lucius Bellenus Gemellus.

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