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p.koeln.4.199 ca. 311 (?)Oxyrhynchites (?)
Brief des Strategen Dioskurides via HGV-meta
Letter of the strategos Dioskourides to Hermias about loading grain boats. A letter from the strategos Dioskourides to Hermias, whom he addresses as his son, urging him to release the boats and load them with grain before the expected visit of the katholikos, a high financial official. People from the village of Paomis had reported that Hermias held the grain. machine translation
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TM 15468.
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- Brief des Strategen Dioskurides HGV-meta Oxyrhynchites (?)ca. 311 (?)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
[… ? lines lost …]
ὁ κύριός μου καθολικὸς[…]οἱ
ἀπὸ κώμης Παώμεως κατὰ τὰ
γραφέντα μοι ὑπὸ Σαρμάτου ἔφησαν, λέγειν ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ἔχων τὸν σῖτον. ἀπόλυσον οὖν τὰ πλοῖα
πανταχόθεν, μὴ κινδυνεύσωμεν, καὶ γόμωσον τὰ πλοῖα πρὸ τῆς
ἐπιδημίας τοῦ κυρίου μου καθολικοῦ,
ὡς προεῖπον, ὡς εἰδὼς ὅτι φθόνον
ἡμῖν παρέχειν τὸ ὁρμεῖν τὰ πλοῖα.
ἐρρωσθαί σε εὔχομαι,
κύριέ μου υἱέ.
[v]
τῷ κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ Ἑρμιᾶτι Διοσκουρίδης στρατηγός.Translations (1)
[recto]
[…] my lord the katholikos […] the men from the village of Paomis, according to what was written to me by Sarmates, said that (?) you are the one who has the grain. So release the boats from everywhere, lest we run into danger, and load the boats before the arrival of my lord the katholikos, as I said before, knowing that the boats lying at anchor brings ill will upon us.
I pray for your health, my lord son.
[verso]
To my lord son Hermias, Dioskourides, strategos.
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- TM-Text 15468 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.koeln;4;199 tier-1
- HGV-Text 15468 tier-1
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