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Letter from Chaeremon to Diogenes via HGV-meta

Letter from Chairemon to Diogenes about water-wheel, irrigation and wine. A business letter from Chairemon to Diogenes, probably an estate manager reporting on farm work. He asks for two yokes of oxen for an idle water-wheel and reports on manuring, irrigation, vegetable seed, and a shipment of jars of wine to Heron, with an accounting of the yield of the wine-presses. Written in Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Χαιρήμων Διογένῃ τῷ τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις πέμψεις ἡμῖν ζευκτηρίας μηχανῇ δύο ἐπεὶ ἡ μηχανὴ τὸ ἐν τῷ κλήρῳ καταργεῖται. ἐξέβησαν τοὺς τόπους τοῦ κλήρου η. ἐξαφέθη εἰς τὴν βασιλικὴν Φιλίσκου θ. περὶ τοῦ κόπρου ἀποτέτακται Διονύσις, ἐζήτησα ἄλλου. περὶ τοῦ ποτισμοῦ τοῦ κτήματος ἐξαφέθη τοῖς τὰ κτήνη περιβαλοῦσι. δαπανῶμαι ἄλλας τέσσαρας ἡμέρας τὸ κτήμα ποτίζων. περὶ τοῦ διαφόρου γύου […] κλῆροι ὡς ἀφέθη τὴν μηχανήν […] ον…[…]ην η ἐξαφέθη[…]…δ…ει χο…ν…ενεγκα[…] τὸ λαχανόσπερμον δυναση τι κ…… ἐκλείσαμεν εἰς πλοῖον Ἥρωνι εὐώδη κεράμια δραχμὰς τϙ, καὶ ἡμῖν τὸ τέταρτον μέρος κεῖται ἐν ἡλιαστηρίῳ. διεχώρισα οὖν τὰ ἡμῶν. παρὲκ τῆς ἕκτης ληνοῦ, ἀπὸ τῶν πέντε ληνῶν μόνα γίνεται λεῖα λδ. χδ[…]…[…]…[…]… ἔρρωσο κύριε

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Chairemon to the most honoured Diogenes, greetings. Please send us two yokes of oxen (?) for the water-wheel, since the water-wheel on the allotment is idle. They went out of the places of the allotment, 8. Philiskos' (land) released into the royal (land), 9. Concerning the manure, Dionysios has been assigned; I looked for another. Concerning the watering of the estate, it was left to those who yoke the animals. I am spending another four days watering the estate. Concerning the disputed (?) field […] allotments, as the water-wheel was released […] was released […] […] brought […] the vegetable seed […] can […] we shut into a boat for Heron fragrant jars, 390 (drachmas), and the fourth part of ours lies in the sun-drying yard. So I separated our share. Apart from the sixth wine-press, from the five wine-presses there are only 34 (jars of) smooth (wine?). […] Farewell, lord.

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