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p.haun.2.20 IV - V
Letter of Pares Concerning Medicinal Herbs via HGV-meta
Letter from Pares to Papeios ordering mastic, saffron and other drugs. A private letter from Pares to his 'lord and brother' Papeios, asking him, as usual, to buy various aromatic and medicinal substances by the pound and ounce, including mastic, saffron, cassia wood and costus. It dates to the 4th or 5th century AD. machine translation
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TM 32376.
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- Letter of Pares Concerning Medicinal Herbs HGV-meta unbekanntIV - V
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,ms]
ἀγόρασόν μοι σισελίου […]
[r]
κυρίῳ μου καὶ ἀδελφῷ
Παπείῳ Παρῆς πολλὰ χαίρειν.
πρὸ παντὸς εὔχομαι τῷ θεῷ περὶ τῆς
σωτηρίας σου κ…… τέκνων.
ὡς ἔθος ἔχεις ποιεῖν καλῶς ἵνα μοι
ἀγοράσῃς κασσάμου λίτρας δ καὶ
μαστίχης ἁπλῆς Καρίας λίτρας ε καὶ χυδαίας
μαστίχης λίτρας ε καὶ κρόκου οὐγκίας γ
καὶ κρητικῆς λίτρας ε καὶ …ειχειο λίτραν α
καὶ ξυλοκασσίας λίτρας[…] κόνναρα λίτρας …[…]
καὶ κοσταρίου λίτρας ……[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
[v,1]
…
[v,md]
ἀπόδος τῷ κυρίῳ Παπείῳ
παρὰ Παρη
[v,2]
…Translations (1)
[recto, margin]
Buy me some seseli […]
[recto]
To my lord and brother Papeios, Pares, many greetings.
Before all I pray to God for the well-being of you and (?) […] children.
As you are accustomed to do, kindly buy me 4 pounds of kassamon and 5 pounds of simple Carian mastic and 5 pounds of common mastic and 3 ounces of saffron and 5 pounds of Cretan (?) and 1 pound of […] and […] pounds of cassia wood, […] pounds of konnara and […] pounds of costus […]
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[verso, column 1]
…
[verso, middle]
Deliver to my lord Papeios from Pares.
[verso, column 2]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 32376 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.haun;2;20 tier-1
- HGV-Text 32376 tier-1
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