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p.kellis.1.71 Mitte IVKellis (Oasis Magna)
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter from Pamouris to his brother Psais urging a visit. A Christian private letter from Pamouris to his brother Psais, urging him to visit, complaining of a lack of letters, asking for tools and for a girl to be sent to work for him in return for wool. Added messages concern textiles and loom equipment, and Maria sends greetings. Written at Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis in the mid-4th century AD. machine translation
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TM 33325.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta Kellis (Oasis Magna)Mitte IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,ctr]
κυρίῳ τιμιωτάτῳ καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς
ποθεινοτάτωι ἀδελφῶι Ψάιτι
Παμοῦρις ἐν θεῷ χαίρειν.
προηγουμένως πολλὰ τὴν σὴν εὐλάβειαν προσαγορεύομεν ἐγὼ
καὶ ἡ σύμβιος καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ κατʼ ὄνομα, εὖ ἔχοντες τέως προνοίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ. προσείπατε ἡμῖν
τὸν κύριον ἀδελφὸν Θεόγνωστον
καὶ τὸν υἱὸν Ἀνδρέαν· περὶ
τῆς σῆς πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀφίξεως,
τιμιώτατε, ὁσημέραι προσδοκοῦμεν ἐκ πάλαι, ἐξ ὅτου γεγράφηκας. καὶ νὴ τὸν θεὸν διὰ
σὲ ἐνθαδὶ παρέμεινα μὴ ἀπελθὼν εἰς τὴν Ἀντινόου ἀναγκαίας χρείας ἕνεκεν μετὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Πεκυσίου. ἀλλὰ ἰδού, πολλάκις μετεπέμψατό με ἐκεῖ, ἀλλ
ἐπειδή σε προσδοκῶ, οὐκ ἀπῆλθον. αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο καὶ αὐτῷ ἔγραψα ὅτι τὸν ἀδελφὸν μετὰ
τῶν παιδίων προσδοκῶ ἐνταῦθα. διὸ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς ἐλθεῖν. φέρε μοι μετὰ σοῦ πελύκιον καὶ βατέλλιον χαλκοῦν
κλιβανωτόν. πρόσειπέ μοι
ἕκαστον κατʼ ὄνομα. τεθαύμακα δὲ πῶς, τοσούτων ἐλθόντων πρὸς ἡμᾶς, οὐδὲ
καὶ ἐὰν γράμματος ἡμᾶς κατηξιώσατε διὰ τοσούτου χρόνου,
ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐγὼ ἤμην κρίνας
μὴ γράψαι καὶ ὅμως οὐκ ἐδυνήθην βαστάξαι, μάλιστα ὅτι
Φιλάμμων ἐστίν· ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι διψῶμεν τῶν ὑμετέρων γραμμάτων; πρόσειπέ μοι Καπίτωνα καὶ Ψάιν
Τρυφάνους μετὰ συμβίων καὶ τέκνων. πολλά μοι πρόσειπε τὴν
μητέρα Μαρίαν καὶ τὴν μικρὰν
Τσεμπνούθην. πέμψον μοι, ἀξιῶ, τὴν κόραν. ἐγὼ δίδω τὸ
φόρετρον καὶ καθʼ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν
χαρίσω σοι ἐρέαν εἰς ἱμάτιον τοῦ
μισθοῦ αὐτῆς. ἔρρωσό μοι, κύριε.
[r,ms]
ἀξιῶ δέξαι παρὰ Καμὲ τοὺς δέκα στατῆρας
στήμονος καὶ δὸς Ψάι Τρυφάνους. θαυμάζω, μῆτερ Μαρία, πῶς οὐκ ἔγραψάς
μοι ὅτι ἐδεξάμην τὸ παρακρεμάσιον παρὰ Ψάιτος· δέξαι τοῦτο τὸ ἄλλον παρὰ Φιλάμμωνος καὶ κυθρίδιον ἰχθύων.
[v]
ἀξιῶ, μῆτερ Μαρία, πέμψον μοι τὸ βατέλλιον καὶ τὸ κρίκιον τὸ σιδηροῦν, ὅτι θέλω αὐτὰ βαλεῖν εἰς τὸν ἱστόν.
ἐγὼ Μαρία προσαγορεύω τὴν κυρίαν μου τὴν μητέρα
καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν μετὰ τέκνων. προσαγορεύει ὑμᾶς
καὶ τὰ τέκνα μου. ἔρρωσθέ μοι.
…Translations (1)
To my lord, most honoured and truly most longed-for brother Psais, Pamouris, greetings in God.
First of all, I and my wife and our sons, each by name, send many greetings to your piety; we are well so far by the providence of God. Greet for us our lord brother Theognostos and his (?) son Andreas. Concerning your coming to us, most honoured one, we have been expecting you every day for a long time now, ever since you wrote. And by God, because of you I stayed on here and did not go to Antinoou on a pressing matter with brother Pekysios. But look, he has often sent for me to come there, but since I am expecting you, I did not go. I wrote exactly this to him too, that I am expecting my brother here with the children. So do not neglect to come. Bring with you for me a small axe and a bronze baking-pan (?). Greet for me each one by name. I am amazed how, when so many people have come to us, you have not even thought us worthy of a letter in such a long time; I too had decided not to write, and yet I could not bear it, especially since Philammon is here (?). Or do you not know that we thirst for your letters? Greet for me Kapiton and Psais son of Tryphanes with their wives and children. Greet warmly for me mother Maria and little Tsempnouthes. Send me the girl, I ask you. I will pay the transport costs, and each year I will give you wool for a cloak as her wage. Farewell, my lord.
[margin]
Please receive from Kame the ten staters of warp-thread and give them to Psais son of Tryphanes. I am surprised, mother Maria, that you did not write to me that you received the hanging (?) from Psais; receive this other one from Philammon, and a small pot of fish.
[verso]
Please, mother Maria, send me the pan (?) and the little iron ring, because I want to put them on the loom.
I, Maria, greet my lady mother and my sister with the children. My children also greet you. Farewell.
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Connections
Found at
Kellis (Oasis Magna)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33325 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.kellis;1;71 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33325 tier-1
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