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p.mich.8.492 IIAlexandria
Private letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from N[…]nas to his sister Thaisarion about family land sales. A private letter written in Alexandria in the 2nd century AD by N[…]nas to his sister Thaisarion. He reports that his business there has been resolved well and he awaits documents, that their brother Ptolemaios sold his shares of family land (but was stopped from selling theirs), and asks about a public service the village scribe may have assigned him. machine translation
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TM 27102.
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- Private letter APIS-papyrus Alexandria, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
- N[.]nas to Thaisarion HGV-meta AlexandriaII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Ν[…]νᾶς Θαισαρίῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν.
πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ καθʼ ἑκάστην
ὥραν παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι. γινώσκειν σε θέλω, ἀδελφή,
ὅτι οὐκ ἔγραψα ἐπιστολὴν Κοπροῦτι, μεταδέδωκα γὰρ αὐτῇ
πάντα ἀπὸ λόγου. ὅτε ἀνέβη οὔπω πέρας ἐγεγόνει τῷ πράγματι,
νῦν δὲ εὐχαριστῶ τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι, γέγονε πάντα καλῶς.
οὐ δὲ αἱ ἐπιστολαὶ ἐξῆλθαν· προσδέχομαι αὐτάς. γίνωσκε ὅτι
ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἡμῶν Πτολεμαῖος πέπρακε πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ, τὸ
ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἀπὸ τῶν ἀρουρῶν ὀκτὼ περὶ κώμην
Σεβέννυθον Φιλοξᾶτι ἱππεῖ, καὶ ἐν τόπῳ Παμμέβει καὶ ἐν
τόπῳ Πενῆ καὶ ἐν τόπῳ Τβῦνι καὶ ἐν τόπῳ Κολλαύθεως
καὶ ἐν τόπῳ Ψὲνς καὶ ἐν τόπῳ Πιλιπῖτε καὶ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον
αὐτῷ μέρος φοινικῶνος ἐν τόπῳ Ὄκες, ταῦτα πάντα πεπραμένα Ἡρᾶτι τῷ υἱῷ σου. καὶ ἂν νυνί, εἰ μὴ ὅτι ἐγενόμην ἐν
Ἀλεξανδρίᾳ, ἤμελλεν τὰ σὰ καὶ τὰ ἐμὰ καὶ τὰ τῆς μητρὸς ἡμῶν
πάντα πωλῆσαι. εὐχαριστῶ δὲ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῆς θυγατρὸς Εὑρήμονος, διʼ αὐτὸν πάντα γέγονε. ἔχρησέν μοι ὡς
ἀδελφῷ. ἐὰν ὁ Σάραπις ἐπιτρέψῃ καὶ λάβω τὰς ἐπιστολὰς κατέλαβά σε. εἴρηκα καὶ Κοπροῦτι ταῦτα πάντα ἀπὸ λόγου ἵνα σοι
εἴπῃ. ἐὰν εἰδῇς ὅτι ὁ κωμογραμματεὺς ἔβαλέν με εἰς χρείαν,
δήλωσόν μοι ὅτι εἰς ποταπὴν χρείαν με ἔβαλε. καὶ εἴ τίς σε
ἠδίκησεν δήλωσόν μοι διὰ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.
ἀσπάζου τὸν ἀδελφόν μου Πτολεμαῖον πολλὰ καὶ Διοδώραν
καὶ Λονγεῖνον καὶ […]ν καὶ Γέμελλαν καὶ τὴν μητέρα
μου πολλά. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.
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Θαισαρίῳ Ξίστι ἀπὸ
Ν[…]νᾶτος ἀδελφοῦ.Translations (1)
[recto]
N[…]nas to Thaisarion, very many greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are well, and I make your obeisance every hour before the lord Sarapis. I want you to know, sister, that I did not write a letter to Kopros, for I told her everything by word of mouth. When she went up, the matter had not yet come to an end, but now I give thanks to the lord Sarapis, everything has turned out well. But the letters have not yet come out; I am waiting for them. Know that our brother Ptolemaios has sold all his property, the share falling to him of the 8 arouras near the village of Sebennytos, to Philoxas the cavalryman, and at the place Pammebis and at the place Pene and at the place Tbynis and at the place of Kollauthes and at the place Psens and at the place Pilipite, and the share falling to him of the palm grove at the place Okes; all these have been sold to Heras your son. And even now, if I had not been in Alexandria, he would have sold all your property and mine and our mother's. I thank Ptolemaios, the husband of the daughter of Heuremon; through him everything has come about. He treated me like a brother. If Sarapis permits and I receive the letters, I will come to you. I have also told Kopros all this by word of mouth so that she may tell you. If you know that the village scribe has put me down for a public service, let me know to what sort of service he has put me. And if anyone has wronged you, let me know his name by letter. Greet my brother Ptolemaios warmly, and Diodora and Longinus and […] and Gemella and my mother warmly. I pray for your health.
[verso]
To Thaisarion, at Xis (?), from N[…]nas her brother.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 27102 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;8;492 tier-1
- HGV-Text 27102 tier-1
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