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p.iand.2.18 VIIOxyrhynchos (?)
Epistula via HGV-meta
Letter about the purchase of honey and payment owed to sellers. Fragment of a business letter in which the writer reports difficulties buying honey at the expected price and asks the recipient to send the rest of three solidi so he can pay the sellers. He has already jarred the honey and loaded it, and promises to report how many Knidian jars were filled. machine translation
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TM 37108.
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- Epistula HGV-meta Oxyrhynchos (?)VII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
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κατὰ τεσσεράκοντα , οὐ πωλεῖται τὸ μέλιν ἐνταῦθα· καὶ ἐδυνήθημεν οὐδαμῶς
ἀναγκάσαι τοὺς πωλοῦντας καὶ λαβεῖν κατὰ λε. καὶ εἰ μὴ τὰ εἴκοσι τρία
κεράτια Ἀλεξανδρείας τὰ πεμφθέντα μοι διὰ τοῦ Ἀσκλᾶ τὰ ποιήσαντα δημόσια
εἴκοσι δύο κεράτια, οὐδὲν ἔλαβον ἐκ τῶν τριῶν νομισμάτων. λοιπὸν καταξιώσεις
τὸ ὑπόλοιπον τῶν τριῶν νομισμάτων πέμψαι μοι ἐνταῦθα, ἵνα δώσω τοῖς πωλήσασιν
τὸ μέλιν, ἐπειδὴ ἀναγκάζομαι παρʼ αὐτῶν· ἤδη γὰρ τὸ μέλιν κατήγγισα καὶ ἔβαλα εἰς τὴν καρίδα.
καὶ γράφω σοι κατὰ πόδα τούτων τὸ εἰς πόσα κνίδια κατήγγισα τὸ μέλιν. †Translations (1)
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[…] at 40, the honey is not sold here; and we were [in no way] able to compel the sellers and to take it at 35 (?). And had it not been for the 23 carats of Alexandria sent to me through Asklas, which made 22 public carats, I would have received nothing of the three solidi. So then, please send me here the remainder of the three solidi, so that I may pay the sellers of the honey, since I am being pressed by them; for I have already put the honey into jars and loaded it onto the boat (?). And I will write to you straight after this how many Knidian jars I filled with the honey. †
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37108 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.iand;2;18 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37108 tier-1
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