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p.flor.3.366 II - IIIArsinoites

Lettera di Sarapion a Epaphroditos via HGV-meta

Letter from Sarapion to Epaphroditos about the price of barley. A private business letter from Sarapion to Epaphroditos about selling barley. Sarapion complains that Epaphroditos, after instructing him to sell at 6 drachmas 4 obols, changed his mind three days later and asked for a lower price, though others had sold to a brewer at that rate. Written in the Arsinoite nome in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

…υ…β…ος Σαραπίων Ἐπαφροδίτῳ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψάς μοι διὰ Ἀννέους περὶ τῆς κριθῆς ἐκπιπρασκειν πρὸς δραχμὰς ϛ τετρώβολον, θαυμαστὸν δʼ ὡς μετὰ τρεῖς μόνας ἡμέρας μεταβουλευσάμενος γράφεις ἐλάττονος, καίτοι ἄλλων πωλησάντων τῷ ζυτοποιῷ πρὸς δραχμὰς ϛ τετρώβολον […]ρα του…[…] παρόντος καὶ ἐν τῇ Ταυρίνου πιπράσκεται …… […]…ρ…ν[…]ος ὅσον […]ν ἔλεξας καὶ γράψον μοι τί πέρας […]… τοῦ σίτου καὶ τῆς κριθῆς παραλυθὲν οὔπω εὗρον· ἔπεμψα δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ πόλει ζητῆσαι, ἐὰν δὲ καὶ σὺ εὕρῃς, δήλωσόν μοι. ἔρρωσο

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] Sarapion to Epaphroditos, greetings. You sent word to me through Anneus about the barley, to sell it at 6 drachmas 4 obols, and it is astonishing how after only three days you have changed your mind and write for less, although others have sold to the brewer at 6 drachmas 4 obols […] being present, and in the (farmstead?) of Taurinos it is being sold […] as much as […] you said, and write to me what the outcome […] of the wheat and the barley; I have not yet found the released (?) […]; I have also sent to search in the city, and if you too find it, let me know. Farewell.

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Found at Arsinoite nome

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