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p.kellis.1.5 1. Hälfte IVKellis (Oasis Magna)
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Letter from the carpenter Genas to his master Pausanias. A letter from Genas, a carpenter, to his master Pausanias, greeting him with his wife Tamous and their sons. Genas explains that he has delayed coming as ordered because of farm work at sowing time, and asks Pausanias to send Timotheos to act in his place and to write to Gaios for a donkey so he can travel. Written at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis in the first half of the 4th century AD. machine translation
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TM 33297.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta Kellis (Oasis Magna)1. Hälfte IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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τῷ δεσπότῃ μου
Παυσανίᾳ
Γενᾶ χαίρειν. προηγουμένως πολλὰ τὴν εὐγένειάν σου προσαγορεύω
μετὰ τῆς κυρίας μου Ταμοῦ
καὶ τῶν υἱῶν εὐχόμενος ὁλοκληρεῖν διὰ παντός· ὡς ἐκέλευσεν ἡ σὴ εὐγένεια, ἤθελον
ἐξαυτῆς ἐλθεῖν πρὸς τὴν σὴν
χρηστότητα, ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐν τῷ
[…]...... Πμοῦν Βερι βορινοῦ
[…] ἡμερῶν μετὰ πλησου
τοῦ καρποῦ, διὰ τοῦτο τέως ὑπερεθέμην, ἵνα μὴ ἔλθω
μηδʼ ἀφανίσθῃ τὸ πρᾶγμα.
ὡς ἴστε, καιρός ἐστιν τῆς
κατασπορᾶς. εἰ ἔδοξεν οὖν
τῇ εὐγενείᾳ, πέμψον τὸν ἀδελφὸν Τιμόθεον, ἵνα ποιήσῃ
τὸ πρᾶγμα ἀντʼ ἐμοῦ, καὶ γράψον
μοι ὄνον πρὸς Γάϊον
ἵνα ἐπειχθῶ, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ
ἔχω […]νι… κτῆνος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, δέσποτά μου, πολλοῖς εὐτυχοῦντα χρόνοις.
[v]
τῷ δεσπότῃ μου Παυσανίᾳ
Γενᾶ τέκτωνTranslations (1)
[recto]
To my master Pausanias, Genas, greetings. First of all I greet your nobility warmly, together with my lady Tamous and your sons, praying that you are in good health always. As your nobility ordered, I wanted to come to your goodness at once, but since in the […] Pmoun Beri of the north […] days with (?) […] of the crop, for this reason I have postponed for the time being, so that I would not come and the matter be ruined. As you know, it is the time of sowing. If, then, it seems good to your nobility, send brother Timotheos so that he may do the business in my place, and write to Gaios for a donkey for me, so that I may hurry, since I do not have […] an animal. I pray for your health, my master, prospering for many years.
[verso]
To my master Pausanias, Genas the carpenter.
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Kellis (Oasis Magna)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33297 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.kellis;1;5 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33297 tier-1
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