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p.lond.4.1344 Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)

Letter of Qurra ibn Sharik to Basileios on fugitives from the Arsinoite nome. A letter from the Arab governor of Egypt, Qurra ibn Sharik, to Basileios, administrator of Aphrodito, rebuking him for not returning fugitives from the Arsinoite nome. It threatens severe punishment, including death, for anyone harbouring them and announces an envoy sent to search them out. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] ἐν ὀνόματι τοῦ Θεοῦ Κόρρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος Βασιλείῳ διοικητῇ κώμης Ἀφροδιτὼ[…]περιγύρευσαι μαθεῖν τὸν τύπον ὃν ἐξεθέμεθα ἕνεκε τῆς ἀποστροφῆς τῶν φυγάδων τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου εἰ μέντοι συνιεῖς. ἤδη γὰρ ὡς γινώσκεις γεγραφήκαμέν σοι περὶ τούτων καὶ μέχρι τῆς δεῦρο τινὰ ἐξ αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπέμψας διʼ ἣν αἰτίαν ἀγνοοῦμεν. ἔσῃ οὖν ἐπιστάμενος ὡς ἐὰν φανείης παραμελήσας τι τὸ καθόλου ἐκ τῆς ἐπιτροπῆς ἡμῶν ἢ καὶ εὕρομέν τινα ἐν τῇ διοικήσει σου ἐξ ὧνπερ γεγραφήκαμέν σοι ἀποστεῖλαι συνέφερέν σοι μὴ γεννηθῆναι ὅλως μήτε φανῆναι ἐν τοῖς ζῶσιν. λοιπὸν διαμάρτυραι τοὺς τῆς διοικήσεώς σου ἐμπόνωςχάριν τῶν αὐτῶν φυγάδων τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου. οὔτε γὰρ ἔχει συγγνώμην οὔτε παραχώρησίν τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χωρίῳ ἢ μ…ελικω ἢ αὐλῇ …[…]…[…]πωμβρ[…]υ τις ὡς εἴρηται ἐκ τῶν ὁρισθέντων ἀποστραφῆναι φυγάδων τοῦ Ἀρσινοίτου. λοιπὸν ὡς λέλεκται παραφυλαττόμενος παραφύλαξαι τὴν ψυχήν σου σὺν τῶν τῆς διοικήσεώς σου κατὰ[…]…[…]γὰρ τῶν παρόντων ἡμῶν γραμμάτων κελεύσει Θεοῦ πέμπομεν ἀπόστολον ἡμῶν ὀφείλοντα μετὰ πάσης ἀκριβείας καταψηλαφῆσαι ἕνεκε τῶν τοιούτων φυγάδων ὅπου δʼ ἄν εἰσιν καὶ ἀπολεῖται ὁ φαινόμενος ἔχειν τινὰ ἐκ τῶν θεματισθέντων ἀποστραφῆναι φυγάδων τοῦτʼ ἔστι […] ἐγράφη μηνὸς[…] ἰνδικτίονος η [v] Κόρρα υἱὸς Σζεριχ σύμβουλος Βασιλείῳδιοικητῇ κώμης Ἀφροδιτώ

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] In the name of God. Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito. […] go round (?) to learn the regulation which we issued concerning the return of the fugitives of the Arsinoite nome, if indeed you understand it. For already, as you know, we have written to you about these matters, and up to now you have not sent any of them, for what reason we do not know. Know therefore that if you are shown to have neglected anything at all of our instructions, or if we find in your district anyone of those whom we wrote to you to send, it would have been better for you never to have been born nor to appear among the living. Further, warn the people of your district earnestly regarding these same fugitives of the Arsinoite nome. For none of you has pardon or remission if any of them is found in this place or […] or courtyard […] anyone, as has been said, of those who have been ordered to be returned, fugitives of the Arsinoite nome. Further, as has been said, take good care and guard your life together with those of your district […] for with the present letter of ours, by the command of God, we are sending our envoy, who is to search with all exactness for such fugitives wherever they may be, and whoever is shown to have any of the fugitives who have been designated to be returned shall perish, that is […]. Written in the month […], indiction 8. [verso] Qurra son of Sharik, governor, to Basileios, administrator of the village of Aphrodito.

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