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p.fay.119 ca. 103Euhemeria (Arsinoites)

Letter from Gemellus to Sabinus via HGV-meta

Letter from Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his son Sabinus about hay, documents and festivals. A letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his son Sabinus, complaining about rotten hay, a dispute with a man from Psinachis who obtained a prefect's letter to the strategos, and asking for documents and the key to find them. He also orders cocks for the Saturnalia, food for Gemella's birthday feast, and animals to carry manure, written at Euhemeria in the Fayum around AD 103. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Λούκιος Βελλῆνος Γέμελλος Σαβίνωι τῷ υἱῶι χαίρειν. ἠγόρακε Αὐνῆς ὁ ὀνηλάτης χόρτου δέσμην σαπρὰν ἐκ δραχμῶν ιβ καὶ μικρὰν δέσμην καὶ χόρτον σαπρὸν καὶ ὅλον λελυμένον ὡς σκύβαλον. Σαβῖνος ὁ Ψελλὸς ὁ ἀπὸ Ψινάχεος τὸν μετʼ ἐσοῦ εἰς πόλιν ἤνεγκε ἐπιστολὴν τοῦ ἡγεμόνος πρὸς Διονύσιν τὸν στρατηγὸν διακοῦσαι αὐτοῦ τ…μαισες βίαν μου αὐτω π[…]ουτωττι ἕως γράψῃ τὸν τρι[…]…ευρον τοῦ χόρτου ἐπὶ σποράν. τὴν διαγραφὴν τοῦ χόρτου ποῦ τέθηκας καὶ τὸ δάνειον αὐτοῦ τῆς μνᾶς ἥ ἐστι γραφή; πέμψεις τὸ κλειδίον καὶ σήμαινόν μοι ποῦ κεῖται ἵνα αὐτὰ προέλω ἵνα ἐὰν μέλλω πρὸς αὐτὸν λογιεῖν ἔχω αὐτά. μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσῃς. ἐπιμέλου σεαυτοῦ. ἀσπάζου Ἐπαγαθὸν καὶ τοὺς φιλοῦντας ἡμᾶς πρὸς ἀλήθειαν. ἔρρωσο. Χοίακ ιβ. εἰς τὰ Σατορνάλια πέμψεις ἀλέκτορας δέκα ἀγοράσας καὶ εἰς τὰ γενέσια Γεμέλλης πέμψεις ὀψάρια καὶ …… καὶ ἄρτον πυροῦ ἀρτάβην α. [r,ms] πέμψεις τὰ κτήνη κοπρηγεῖν εἰς τὸ λάχανον τῆς Ψινάχεως καὶ τὰ κοπρηγά, ἐπεὶ κράζει Πᾶσις ἵνα μὴ εἰς ψωμίον γένηται διὰ τὸ ὕδωρ, καὶ χόρτον αὐτοῦ ἐνενκάτωσαν. εὐθέως πέμψεις τὰ κτήνη. [v] ἀπόδος Σαβίνωι τῷ υἱῷ παρὰ Λουκίου Βελλήνου Γεμέλλου.

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his son Sabinus, greetings. Aunes the donkey-driver has bought a rotten bundle of hay for 12 drachmas, and a small bundle, and the hay is rotten and all fallen apart like rubbish. Sabinus the Stammerer (?) from Psinachis, the one who was with you, brought to the city a letter of the prefect to Dionysios the strategos, ordering him to hear his case […] my violence (?) […] until he writes the […] of the hay for sowing. Where have you put the bank order for the hay and the loan of his mina, which is a written contract? Send the key and tell me where it lies, so that I may take them out, so that if I have to settle accounts with him I may have them. Do not do otherwise. Take care of yourself. Greet Epagathos and those who love us truly. Farewell. Choiak 12. For the Saturnalia send ten cocks, having bought them, and for the birthday festival of Gemella send small fish and […] and bread, 1 artaba of wheat. [recto, margin] Send the animals to carry manure to the vegetable plot at Psinachis, and the manure baskets, since Pasis is crying out that it may not turn into mush because of the water; and let them bring him hay. Send the animals at once. [verso] Deliver to Sabinus his son from Lucius Bellenus Gemellus.

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