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p.hamb.3.228 VIOxyrhynchites (?)

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Letter of the deacon Esaias to the priest Martyrios about woad, grain and taxes at Senyris. A sixth-century letter from the deacon Esaias to the priest Martyrios about the village of Senyris, probably in the Oxyrhynchite nome. The farmers refuse to pay their taxes until the woad dealer (monopolist) comes to buy their woad, and debtors refuse to pay for grain; Esaias asks Martyrios to petition the landowner and to instruct him what to do. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] μάθῃ ἡ σὴ εὐσέβεια, ὅτι ηὑρέθησαν πάντες οἱ γεωργοὶ τῆς κώμης λέγοντες ὅτι· ἔχομεν τὴν ἰσάτιν ἡμῶν· οὐ παρέχομεν ἓν κεράτιον εἰς τὸ δημόσιον ἡμῶν , εἰ μὴ ἔρχεται ὁ μονοπωλάριος καὶ λάβῃ τὴν αὐτὴν ἰσάτιν ἡμῶν. οἱ δὲ μὴ ἔχοντες ἰσάτιν δέδωκαν ἐγγυητὴν ἱκανόν, ὅτι οἱ ἔχοντες περιττὸν ἰσάτιν καταβάλλουσιν ὑπὲρ τῶν μὴ ἐχόντων. θέλησον δὲ ἀνελθεῖν πρὸς τὸν γεοῦχον καὶ παρακαλέσαι αὐτόν, ἵνα πέμψῃ τὸν αὐτὸν μονοπωλάριον ἐνταῦθα πρῶτον. καὶ περὶ τοῦ σίτου οὐκ ἐπώλησα ἑνὸς ὁλοκοττίνου, θεὸς οἶδεν ὁ μόνος. καὶ οἱ χρεωστοῦντες τὴν λοιπάδα τοῦ σίτου οὐκ ἠθέλησαν δοῦναι τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ αὐτοῦ σίτου λέγοντες ὅτι· εἰ μὴ λάβῃς τὸν αὐτὸν σῖτον. γράψον μοι δὲ τὸ τί ὀφείλει γενέσθαι. ἀπῄτησα γὰρ ἓξ νομίσματα καὶ δέδωκα αὐτὰ λόγῳ προχρείας. κατέχει μοι δὲ Πέτρος καὶ Μηνᾶς οἱ παῖδες […] ἔχεις δὲ τὸ πιττάκιον αὐτῶν τοῦ ἑνὸς τρίτου νομισματίου. ἔχεις δὲ[…]διὰ ἄπα Σιρίου τοῦ συμμάχου τοῦ ἑνὸς νομισματίου, ἵνα τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἄπα Σιρίου[…] ἓν νόμισμα. πολλὰ δὲ προσαγορεύω ὑμᾶς. [v] ἐπίδος τῷ θεοσεβεστάτῳ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν Μαρτυρίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ […] παρὰ Ἠσαείου διακόνου […] πιττάκιον σίτου καὶ χρυσοῦ ὑπὲρ κώμης Σενύρεως […] α ἰνδικτίωνος

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Let your piety know that all the farmers of the village were found saying: "We have our woad; we will not provide a single keration toward our public taxes unless the monopolist comes and takes this woad of ours." Those who have no woad have given a sufficient guarantor, so that those who have surplus woad will pay on behalf of those who have none. Please go up to the landowner and urge him to send this monopolist here first. And as for the grain, I have not sold a single solidus' worth, God alone knows. And those who owe the remainder of the grain refused to pay the price of this grain, saying: "Unless you take this grain." Write to me what ought to be done. For I collected six nomismata and gave them as an advance payment. Petros and Menas the servants (?) are holding back from me […] You have their note for one third of a nomisma. And you have […] through apa Sirios the symmachos for one nomisma, so that of the same apa Sirios […] one nomisma. I greet you much. [verso] Deliver to our most God-fearing lord Martyrios, priest, […] from Esaias, deacon. […] note about grain and gold on behalf of the village of Senyris […] 1st (?) indiction

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