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p.fouad.1.79 III - IVOxyrhynchos
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter demanding the dispatch of a metretes of oil. Fragment of a private letter in which the writer rebukes the recipient for failing to send him oil through his brother and for staying in the Oxyrhynchite nome. He demands that a metretes of oil be sent with his messenger, together with a donkey, or else he will come and quarrel or have others collect it. It dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD, from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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TM 31416.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII - IV
- Private letter APIS-papyrus Oxyrhynchus3rd or 4th century A.D.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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κακὸν πράσσεις μὴ ἀποστείλας μοι τὸ ἔλαιον
διὰτοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου, ἀλλὰ
παρεπιδημήσας τῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτῃ καὶ μὴ φανεὶς ἐνθάδε. νῦν οὖν τὸν
μετρητὴν τοῦ ἐλαίου μοι
ἀπόστειλον μετὰ τοῦ
ἀποσταλέντος ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ,
δοὺς αὐτῷ ὄνον ἵνα
μὴ ἐγὼ ἀναγκασθῶ
ἐλθὼν ἐκεῖ μαχεσθῆναί σοι ἢ ἀναγκάσῃς με
ἄλλους ἀξιῶσαι τοὺς
ἀπαιτήσοντάς σε. διὰ
τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ παρὰ τὴν
α…υ……κε η α…εδω
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
[…]
You are doing wrong in not sending me the oil through your brother, but instead staying in the Oxyrhynchite (nome) and not showing up here. Now therefore send me the metretes of oil with the man sent by me, giving him a donkey, so that I am not compelled to come there and fight with you, or you compel me to ask others to demand it from you. For this reason also, contrary to the […]
[…]
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 31416 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.fouad;1;79 tier-1
- HGV-Text 31416 tier-1
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