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p.hamb.3.229 VIOxyrhynchites (?)
Byzantinischer Brief (II) via HGV-meta
Letter from the deacon Esaias to the priest Martyrios about grain and wine. A Byzantine letter from the deacon Esaias to the priest Martyrios about storing and managing grain, a padlock, wages, wine jars and oil. Esaias complains of overwork and notes he received no gold from Martyrios' son Ioustos. Probably from the Oxyrhynchite nome, 6th century AD. machine translation
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TM 35841.
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- Byzantinischer Brief (II) HGV-meta Oxyrhynchites (?)VI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
καθὼς ἔγραψέν μοι ἡ σὴ εὐλάβεια περὶ τοῦ θησαυροῦ, ἰδοὺ ἀνῆλθεν Πέτρος ὁ παῖς εἰς τὴν πόλιν.
ποίησον τὸν κόμετα εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ μετὰ τοῦ προνοητοῦ. οὐχ ηὗρον δὲ ποῦ βαλεῖν σῖτον, διότι
τὰς δύο κύφας ἐγομώσθησαν. σπούδασον δὲ τοῦ ἀνελθεῖν ἐνταῦθα διὰ τὴν
λοιπάδα τοῦ σίτου. ἐρχομένου δέ σου ἡ εὐλάβεια ἔνεγκε κατηνάριον, ἵνα βαλω[…]λ[…]
…… καὶ βάλλειν ἐκεῖ σῖτον. σὺν θεῷ γὰρ προέβη τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ σίτου καὶ πάνυ καλόν
ἐστιν τὸ διάπεισμα. ἐὰν δὲ ἑτοίμως ἔχῃς ἵνα πέμπῃς τὸ ὀψώνιον μου ἄνω πρὸ τῆς ἀναβάσεως,
δήλωσόν μοι. ἀπέκαμον γὰρ ἐνταῦθα ἐφέτος πλέον ἄλλων. θεὸς γὰρ οἶδεν ὁ μόνος, ὅτι σὺ
εἰ ἦσθα ἐνταῦθα οὐ ποιεῖς ἃ ποιῶ. μαρτυρεῖ μοι δὲ ὁ θεός, ὅτι πῶς ἐργάζομαί σοι. καθὼς
ἐδήλωσέν μοι ἡ σὴ εὐλάβεια περὶ τοῦ οἴνου, μὰ τὸν θεὸν ἤδη ἔσχον ἐν χρήσει ἄλλα τέσσαρα
οἰνάρια. οὐκ ἠθέλησα γὰρ δοῦναι σῖτον ὑπὲρ οἰναρίων ἔλαβα ἐν χρήσει. γράψον μοι δὲ τὰ ι[…]
τῶν γραμμάτων. πολλὰ δὲ προσαγορεύω ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλων. πέμψον ἡμῖν δὲ
μικρὸν ἐλάδιον, ἐπεὶ οὐχ ηὗρον ἐνταῦθα οὐδὲ ὁ Μηνᾶς ὁ εἰρήναρχος οὐκ ἠθέλησεν δοῦναί μοι ὑπὲρ
τοῦ νομισματίου. μάθε δὲ ἡ σὴ εὐλάβεια, ὅτι οὐκ ἐδεξάμην χρυσίον παρὰ Ἰούστου τοῦ υἱοῦ σου.
[v]
ἐπίδοςτῷ θεοσεβεστάτῳ Μαρτυρίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ
παρὰ Ἠσαείου διακόνουTranslations (1)
[recto]
As your piety wrote to me about the granary, see, Petros the servant has gone up to the city. Have the comes speak to him together with the steward. I did not find where to put the grain, because the two kyphai (storage containers?) have been filled. Make haste to come up here because of the remainder of the grain. When your piety comes, bring a padlock (?), so that I may put […] and put grain there. For with God's help the matter of the grain has gone forward and the agreement is very good. If you are ready to send my wages up before the rise (of the river?), let me know. For I have worn myself out here this year more than others. For God alone knows that if you were here, you would not do what I do. God is my witness how I work for you. As your piety informed me about the wine, by God, I have already had in use another 4 jars of wine. For I did not want to give grain in exchange for the wine jars I received for use. Write to me the […] of the letters. I greet you all warmly, from small to great. Send us a little oil, since I did not find any here, nor would Menas the eirenarch give me any for the solidus. Let your piety know that I did not receive gold from Ioustos your son.
[verso]
Deliver to the most God-fearing Martyrios, priest,
from Esaias, deacon.
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Oxyrhynchites
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35841 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.hamb;3;229 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35841 tier-1
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