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p.mich.3.217 297Koptos
Letter of Paniskos to Ploutogenia via HGV-meta
Letter from Paniskos to his wife Ploutogenia requesting his arms. A private letter from Paniskos to his wife Ploutogenia, reproaching her for leaving against his instructions and for not answering his three letters. He asks her to send his military equipment (helmet, shield, lances, cuirass, belt) and mentions sending her one talent. Written at Koptos around AD 297. machine translation
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TM 21347.
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- Letter of Paniskos to Ploutogenia HGV-meta Koptos297
- Private Letter APIS-papyrus Koptos, Coptite nome, province of ca. 296-297 A.D.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Πανίσκος Πλουτογενίᾳ τῇ
συμβίῳ χαίρειν.
παρήγγειλά σοι ἐξερχόμενος ὅτι
μὴ ἀπέλθῃς εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν σου
καὶ ἀπῆλθες πάντως. εἴ τι θέλεις
ποιεῖς, λόγον μου μὴ ἔχουσα.
ἀλλὰ οἶδα ὅτι ἡ μήτηρ μου ταῦτα ποιεῖ. ἰδοὺ τρεῖς ἐπιστολὰς ἔπεμψά σοι
καὶ οὐδὲ μίαν μοι ἔγραψας. εἰ μὲν
οὐ θέλεις ἀναβῆναι πρὸς ἐμέ, οὐδείς
σε ἀναγκάζει. ταύτας τὰς ἐπιστολὰς
ἔγραψά σοι ἐπεὶ ἡ ἀδελφή σου ἀναγκάζει με ἐνθάδε γράψαι. ἐπεὶ δέ σοι οὐκ
ἔστιν γράψαι περὶ τούτου, ἄλλα
γράψον οὖν περὶ σοῦ. ἄλλα ἤκουσα τὰ
μὴ ἀνήκοντά σοι. πέμψον μοι τὸ
κασίδιν μου καὶ τὸ ὁπλάριν καὶ τὰ
πέντε λογχία καὶ τὸ λωρίκιν μου
καὶ τὸ βάλτιν μου. ἀσπάζομαι τὴν
μητέρα σου Ἡλιοδώραν. εἶπέν
μοι ἀναβὰς πρὸς ἐμὲ ὁ ἐπιστολοφόρος
ὅτι ὅτε ἔμελλον ἐξελθεῖν εἶπον τῇ
γυναικὶ καὶ τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῆς ὅτι δότε
μοι ἐπιστολὴν ἀπενεγκεῖν τῷ Πανίσκῳ καὶ οὐ δεδώκασι. ἔπεμψά σοι διὰ Ἀντωνίνου ἀπὸ Ψινέστους τάλαντον ἕν .
ἐρρῶσθαί σε
εὔχομαι.
[v]
Πλουτογενίᾳ τῇ συμβίῳ[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
Paniskos to Ploutogenia his wife, greetings.
I instructed you when I was leaving not to go off to your house, and you went off all the same. If you want something, you do it, taking no account of me. But I know that my mother is doing this. Look, I have sent you three letters and you have not written me even one. If you do not want to come up to me, no one is forcing you. I wrote you these letters because your sister forces me to write here. Since you are not able to write about this, then write about yourself. I have heard other things that are not fitting for you. Send me my helmet and the shield (?) and the 5 small lances and my cuirass and my belt. I greet your mother Heliodora. The letter-carrier, when he came up to me, told me that when he was about to leave he said to my wife and her mother, 'Give me a letter to take to Paniskos,' and they did not give one. I have sent you through Antoninus from Psinestis 1 talent.
I pray for your health.
[verso]
To Ploutogenia his wife […]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 21347 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;3;217 tier-1
- HGV-Text 21347 tier-1
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