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p.koeln.16.645

Brief an die Desmophylakes via HGV-meta

Order to the prison guards to release a prisoner. A short official letter from a man whose name ends in -nios to the prison guards (desmophylakes), ordering the release of a prisoner. He states he has stood surety for Herakleides and rebukes the guards for re-arresting someone he had ordered released. Probably 3rd century BC, perhaps from the Herakleopolite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] […]νιος τοῖς δεσμοφύλαξι χαίρειν vac. ἄφετε Σε…[…]…ιν. ἀπήγαγεν Πτολεμαῖος δι’ ἐμοῦ. διεγγεγύηκα γὰρ Ἡρακλείδην τὸν ὑιόν. ἔτι δὲ οὐκ ὀρθῶς πεπράχατε πρώην διεγγυήσαντες αὐτόν. ἀφεῖναι ἐμοῦ συντάξαντος πάλιν ἀπηγάγετε αὐτόν. ἔρρωσθε. ἔτους … Ἁθὺρ κς [v] τοῖς δεσμοφύλαξιν

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […]nios to the prison guards, greetings. Release Se… […]. Ptolemaios brought (him) in through me. For I have stood surety for Herakleides his son. Moreover, you did not act rightly the other day when, after he had been bailed, though I had ordered him to be released, you brought him in again. [Farewell. Year …], Hathyr 26. [verso] To the prison guards.

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