no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.grenf.2.82 ca. 400Panopolis oder Hermopolis
Letter demanding release of a rower of the governor's galley. Letter from Victor and Kollouthos, headmen of the governor's galley commanded by the chief helmsman Apion, to four local men who had detained their rower Sennouthes son of Victor of Hermopolis for an unrelated liturgy. They demand his release, threatening judicial action and penalties, and offer their help in return. Written around AD 400. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 22638.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- (untitled record) HGV-meta Panopolis oder Hermopolisca. 400
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
κυρίοις μου ἀδελφοῖς Βίκτωρι καὶ Μαξίμῳ καὶ
Βίκτωρι ἑτέρῳ καὶ Θεωνᾷ Βίκτωρ καὶ Κολλοῦθος
κεφαλαιωταὶ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ πολυκώπου
τοῦ ὑπὸ Ἀπίωνος ἀρχικυβερνήτου χαίρειν.
οὐ καλῶς ἐποιήσατε οὔτε ἀκίνδυνον ὑμῖν ἦν
κατασχόντες τὸν ἡμέτερον ἐρέτην Σεννούθην
ἐκ πατρὸς Βίκτορος Ἑρμοπολίτην λειτουργίας
ἕνεκα οὐ προσηκούσης αὐτῷ. τοῦ γὰρ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ
λειτουργοῦντος ἐκ πολλοῦ τοῦ χρόνου εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ
πολύκωπον καὶ μισθοὺς χορηγοῦντος ὑπὲρ ἰδίας
κεφαλῆς καὶ συντελοῦντος ἡμῖν ἐκ πατρῷας αὐτοῦ
διαδοχῆς, ὑπάρχει ἡμῖν ἐρέτης τοῦ αὐτοῦ πολυκώπου
ὁ κατασχεθεὶς παρʼ ὑμῶν. ὅθεν εἰδότες τὸ γεγονὸς
ἄτοπον, σπουδάσατε τοῦτον ἀπολῦσαι καὶ φυλάττειν
τῇ τηλικαύτῃ ἀρχοντικῇ ὑπηρεσίᾳ, εἴ γε βούλεσθε
ἔχθραν μεγάλην περιγράψαι. εἰ δὲ οὖν ἐπιμένητε
τῇ αὐτῇ ἐπηρείᾳ, μεταγνῶναι ἔχετε ὥστε καὶ
ἀγανακτήσεως δικαστικῆς πειραθῆναι, οὐδὲν δὲ
ἧττον καὶ ζημίας ὑφίστασθαι. βούλεσθε οὖν τὸν
κατασχεθέντα πάσης ἐπηρείας ἀπαλλάξαι, εἰδότες
τὴν ἀκολουθίαν· πεισθέντων γὰρ ὑμῶν τούτοις
ἡμῶν τοῖς γράμμασιν, νομίζομεν ὅτι δυνάμεθα
καὶ αὐτοὶ χρησιμεύειν ὑμῖν ἐν τῇ τάξει εἰς ὃ ἐὰν
βουληθῆτε ἐπὶ τόπων. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς
εὔχομαι πολλοῖς
χρόνοις.
.
[v]
ἀπόδος Βίκτορι καὶ Μαξίμῳ καὶ Βίκτορι ἑτέρῳ καὶ Θεωνᾷ […]
[…] καὶ Βίκτορος καὶ Κολλούθου κεφαλαιωτῶν.Translations (1)
[recto]
To my lords brothers Victor and Maximus and the other Victor and Theonas, Victor and Kollouthos, headmen of the governor's galley under Apion the chief helmsman, greetings.
You have not acted well, nor was it without risk for you, in detaining our rower Sennouthes, son of Victor, of Hermopolis, for a liturgy that does not concern him. For since his father has served for a long time in the same galley and supplies wages on his own behalf and contributes to us by his paternal succession, the man detained by you is a rower of that same galley belonging to us. Therefore, knowing the impropriety of what has happened, make haste to release him and keep him for so important a service of the governor, if indeed you wish to avoid great enmity. But if you persist in the same abuse, you will come to regret it, so as to experience the anger of the court, and no less also to incur penalties. Be willing, then, to free the detained man from all abuse, knowing what follows; for if you are persuaded by this letter of ours, we think that we ourselves can also be of use to you in the office in whatever you may wish locally. I pray for your health for many years.
{I pray for your health for many years.}
[verso]
Deliver to Victor and Maximus and the other Victor and Theonas […] […] and from Victor and Kollouthos, headmen.
Connections
Found at
Panopolis oder Hermopolis
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 22638 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.grenf;2;82 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22638 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 22638 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 22638 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 22638 (see that record)