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p.mert.1.24 ca. 200

Business Letter via HGV-meta

Letter from Dioskoros to Ammonios about payments and care of property. A business letter from Dioskoros to Ammonios, acknowledging that Ammonios received 56 drachmas and 3 artabas of wheat on his account, promising support as the work progresses, and asking him to tend the property as if it were his own and to check an account with Sempronius. It dates to about AD 200. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Διόσκορος Ἀμμωνίῳ τῶι πολλὰ χαίρειν. γινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι ἐκομισάμην σου ἐπιστόλιον διὰ Ἑρμείνου τοῦ κοινοῦ φίλου ὡς κομισαμένου σου παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν ἐμὸν λόγον ἀριθμοῦ δραχμὰς μ, ὁμοίως καὶ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας γ, καὶ παρὰ Ἀπολλῶτος δραχμὰς ιϛ, ὥστε εἶναι ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ δραχμὰς νϛ. ἴσθι δὲ σεαυτῷ ὅτι κατὰ προκοπὴν τῶν ἔργων οὐ λείψει σε τὸ κατʼ ἐμὲν μέρος ἀλλὰ διαπέμψομαί σοι· διὸ παρακαλῶ σε, ἄδελφε, οὕτως αὐτῶν ἐπιμέλου μὴ ὡς μισθωσίμων ἀλλὰ ὡς ἰδιοκτήτων σου. καὶ καλῶς ποιήσεις ἀντιβαλὼν Σεμπρωνίω τὸ λογαρίδιον ἵνα μοι αὐτὸ διαπέμψηται. ἰδού, καὶ ἀγράφιν […]ια[…]ιω[…]ἵνα εἰς αὐτὸ γράφῃ […]η εὐλαβῶς τὴν ἀρτάβην […] παρὰ Ἥρωνος δήλωσον […] ἔρρωσθαί σε δὲ εὔχομαι σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ ἀβασκάντω σου οἴκῳ. [v] ἀπόδος Ἀμμωνίῳ Ἀπολλοδώρου

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Dioskoros to Ammonios, many greetings. I want you to know that I received your little letter through Hermeinos, our common friend, saying that you had received from him on my account 40 drachmas in cash, likewise also 3 artabas of wheat, and from Apollos 16 drachmas, so that the total is 56 drachmas. Be assured that as the work progresses my part will not fail you, but I will send it on to you; therefore I urge you, brother, look after them not as hired property but as your own. And you will do well to check the little account with Sempronius so that he may send it on to me. See, also a blank sheet (?) […] so that he may write in it […] carefully the artaba […] from Heron, let me know […] I pray for your health together with your whole household, may the evil eye spare it. [verso] Deliver to Ammonios son of Apollodoros.

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