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p.kellis.1.6 1. Hälfte IVKellis (Oasis Magna)
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter from Pausanias to Genas about the purchase of two piglets. A private letter from Pausanias to his brother Genas at Kellis about buying two piglets from the carpenter Aurelius Besas of Pmeskam for 12 kankella of wheat each. Pausanias arranges payment in wheat, involving Timotheos and Sineus, and offers to send a receipt via the water-cleaners. machine translation
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TM 33298.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta Kellis (Oasis Magna)1. Hälfte IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,ctr]
κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ
Γενᾷ Παυσανίας
χαίρειν. ἐνετειλάμην
τῷ ἀδελφῷ Τιμοθέῳ
ἀποστεῖλαι χοιρίδιον
απ[…]…νος εἰς τὰ
αν[…]ου καὶ ἐπανελθεῖν. ἐπεὶ ἐζήτησα περὶ
τῶν χοιριδίων, φησὶ
ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὅτι· ηὗρον δύο
παρʼ Αὐρηλίου Βησᾶτος
τέκτονος ἀπὸ Πμεσκαμ
ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου
σίτουκαγκέλλων δώδεκα ἀχιρ[…]υ. ἔσπευσα
οὖν πέμψαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς
τὸν ἡμέτερον Σινέα.
διὸ οὖν ἀποστείλῃς ὑπὲρ
τοῦ ἑνὸς σίτου καθαροῦ καγκέλλους
δώδεκα, ὅπως ἀξιωθεὶς ἀνέλθῃς μετὰ τοῦυἱοῦ τοῦ Σίνεως καὶ ποιήσῃς τὸν αὐτὸν υἱὸν
…[…]…[…]……υνα… τὰ
χοιρίδια. καὶ εἰ μὲν
εὑρήσεις τὸν ἀδελφὸν Τιμόθεον, ποίησον αὐτὸν ἀναδέξασθαι
αὐτῷ τοὺς ἄλλους
δώδεκα καγκέλλους σίτου
εἰς τὸν καιρὸν ὑπὲρ
τοῦ ἄλλου. εἰ δὲ πάλιν
οὐκ εὑρήσεις, δῆλον
σὺ αὐτὸς ἀναδέξαι
τὸ μέτρον τῶν γενημάτων καὶ ἀπόστειλον τὰ δύο χοιρίδια
καὶ ἐὰν δηλώσῃς
μοι ὅτι εἰς τίνα
γεωργὸν θέλεις
τὴν ἀποχὴν τῶν
δώδεκα καγκέλλων σίτου, ἀποστελῶ σοι χωρὶς ἀμελείας διὰ τῶν ἐλθόντων ὑδροκαθαρτῶν
ἐπʼ αὐτὸν. ἐρρῶσθαί
σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ
ἄδελφε, πολλοῖς χρόνοις.
[r,ms]
ὡς προεῖπον οὖν, ἔπεμψα διὰ Σινέως εἰς τιμὴν τοῦ ἑνὸς ἐν σίτῳ καγκκέλλουςὀκτώ, ὅπως τὰ δύο
ἀποστείλατε. ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἔπεμψα
[v,minf]
τῷ ἀδελφῷ Τιμοθέῳ τὰ εἰκότα ἔτι μὴν καὶ
τῷ ἀδελφῷ Σαρᾶπι.
[v,msup]
τῷ ἀδελφῷ Γενᾷ Παυσανίας.Translations (1)
[recto, centre]
To my lord brother Genas, Pausanias, greetings. I instructed our brother Timotheos to send a piglet […] to the […] and to come back. Since I made inquiry about the piglets, the brother says: "I found two with Aurelius Besas, carpenter, from Pmeskam, at 12 kankella of wheat for each one, […] chaff (?)." So I hastened to send to you our Sineus. Therefore send 12 kankella of clean wheat for the one, so that, having been thought worthy, you may come up with the son of Sineus and make the same son […] the piglets. And if you find brother Timotheos, make him take upon himself the other 12 kankella of wheat at the proper time for the other one. But if again you do not find him, clearly you yourself take upon yourself the measure of the produce, and send the two piglets. And if you inform me to which farmer you want the receipt for the 12 kankella of wheat, I will send it to you without negligence through the water-cleaners who came to him. I pray for your health, lord brother, for many years.
[recto, margin]
As I said before, then, I sent through Sineus, as the price of the one, 8 kankella in wheat, so that you send the two. For look, I have sent
[verso, lower]
to brother Timotheos what is fitting, and moreover also to brother Sarapis.
[verso, upper]
To brother Genas, Pausanias.
Connections
Found at
Kellis (Oasis Magna)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33298 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.kellis;1;6 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33298 tier-1
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