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p.koeln.5.226 II v.Chr.
Brief des Chairemon an Syros via HGV-meta
Letter from Chairemon to Syros asking for honey. A private letter from Chairemon to Syros, asking him to buy a chous of honey and reproaching him for not writing although many travellers were coming their way. It sends greetings to Chairemon's mother and brothers and is dated Choiak 30, in the 2nd century BC. machine translation
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TM 3187.
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- Brief des Chairemon an Syros HGV-meta unbekanntII v.Chr.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Χαιρήμων Σύρωι χαίρειν.
ἤδη Θάις ἐπιθυμεῖ σο…ωι …[…]…η
[…]… προσορμίσῃς
…[…]…[…]…ου[…]…υμνου
ἀγόρασόν μοι μέλιτος χοῦν ἕνα.
εἰ δέ, ὡς ἤκουσα, ὑγιαίνεις,
ἔδει σέ μοι γεγραφέναι πολλῶν
ὄντων τῶν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐρχομένων. ἀσπάζου τὴν μητέρα μου
καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφούς.
ἔρρωσο Χοιὰχ λ.
[v]
[…]πο Σύρωι ἰδίωιTranslations (1)
[recto]
Chairemon to Syros, [greetings].
Already Thais desires […] […]
[…] you put in to harbour (?)
[…]
Buy me one chous of honey.
And if, as I have heard, you are in good health, you ought to have written to me, since there are many people coming to us. Greet my mother and my brothers.
Farewell. Choiak 30.
[verso]
[…] to Syros, his own.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 3187 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.koeln;5;226 tier-1
- HGV-Text 3187 tier-1
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