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p.herm.48 V
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Letter to a lord reporting a meeting with Ioannes and a robbers' raid on horses. A fragmentary private or business letter addressed to the writer's lord, reporting a meeting with the most illustrious Ioannes about a payment of one solidus, and recounting a raid by robbers who went after statues of the city and tried to seize a lady's horses, breaking the leg of a black horse. It dates to the 5th century AD. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[…]δεσποτείας παρεγενόμην πρὸς τὸν λαμπρότατον Ἰωάννην
[…]βακλισθέντος διελέχθην αὐτῷ καὶ ἠνέσχετο πρὸς τὴν
[…]…άσθη τὸ ἓν νόμισμα· λέγει μοι δὲ ἵνα μὴ ἐξαχθῇ
[…]…λευτου ἵνα καὶ αὐτῷ δοθῇ ὀλίγον, τί ποτε ὁ υἱὸς
[…]οι· τὸ οὖν δοκοῦν αὐτῷ[…] τοῦ κελεῦσαι ἕψημά τι
[…]ης πράττω. ταῦτα δὲ γέγραφα ἵνα μὴ νομίζῃ
[…]ς· διδάσκω δὲ αὐτὴν ὅτι λῃσταὶ ἐπῆλθον τῇ
[…] τὰ ἀνδριαντάρια τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ὡς ἐδιώχθησαν
[…]ἔξω τοῦ λαχάνου ἐξῆλθον ἐπὶ τὸ προάστιον τοῦ
[…]θέλοντες λαβεῖν τὰ ἱππάρια αὐτῆς, καὶ ὁ μὲν εἰς
[…] ἄλλος, ἐκλάσθη ὁ ποῦς αὐτοῦ τοῦ μελανοῦ.
[v]
[…] † δεσπότῃ ἐμῷ.Translations (1)
[recto]
[…] of (your) lordship, I went to the most illustrious Ioannes […] when he had been […] (?), I talked with him and he agreed to the […] the one solidus was […]; and he tells me that it should not be taken out […] so that a little may be given to him too, whatever the son […]. So whatever seems good to him […] to order some boiled wine (?) […] I am doing. I have written this so that she may not think […]; and I am informing her that robbers attacked the […] the little statues of the city, and when they were chased away […] outside the vegetable garden they went out to the suburb of the […] wanting to take her horses, and one into […] the other, the leg of the black one was broken.
[verso]
[…] † To my lord.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35421 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.herm;;48 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35421 tier-1
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