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p.mich.8.503 spätes II
Private Letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Sarapion to Antonius Minor asking for three cows. A private letter from Sarapion to Antonius Minor, a former royal scribe of the Great Diospolite (Theban) nome, recounting his failed attempts to find him or a messenger during a journey to Alexandria. Sarapion asks Antonius to lend him three large cows for work on his estates and to tell him their price so he can send payment. It dates to the late 2nd century AD. machine translation
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TM 27113.
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- Private Letter APIS-papyrus unknown place (south of Memphis?),(Late) IInd century A.D.
- Sarapion to Antonius Minor HGV-meta unbekanntspätes II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Σαραπίων Ἀντωνίωι Μίνορι τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν.
καταπλέοντί μοι εἰς Ἀλεξάνδριαν διὰ σπουδῆς ἐγένετο γενέσθαι
εἰς τὸ καταγώγιον τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς γεουχίας σου τὸ ἐν Μέμφει ἵνα
ἐκεῖθεν σοι γράψω, καὶ οὐδένα εὗρον ἐρχόμενον πρὸς σέ. ἀναπλεύσας δὲ μετὰ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος καὶ συντυχὼν Μάρκωι
τῶι φίλωι ἐζήτησά σε εἰ ἐκεῖ γέγονας, καὶ μὴ εὑρών σε
ἐπολυπραγμόνησα περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου, καὶ μαθών
σε καλῶς διάγειν ἡδόμενος ἀνέβην. γράφω οὖν σοι νῦν,
τιμιώτατε, πρῶτον μὲν ἀσπαζόμενός σε καὶ τὸν
κύριόν μου Ἀμμωνιανὸν καὶ τοὺς σοὺς πάντας,
ἔπειτα δεόμενος πάντως διὰ τῶν ἰδίων Μωρίωνος
τρεῖς βόας τελείας μοι δανίζειν καλὰς καὶ μεγάλας τῶι σώματι
ἀνάπαυμα σχίσοντι. εἰς γὰρ τοῦτο αὐτῶν χρείαν ἔχω. ὅπως
σύ μοι σπουδάσῃς τοῦτο διαπράξασθαι παρακαλῶ ἵνα
καὶ τὴν τιμήν μοι αὐτῶν δηλώσῃς καὶ ἐντεῦθέν σοι
διαπέμψομαι. τῶι γὰρ ἰδίωι τοῦ Μωρίωνος ἐπειγομένωι
ἐξελθεῖν οὐ δεδύνημαι διδόναι τὴν τιμὴν ἄδηλον
οὖσαν …… συνεωνήθη. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου,
μετὰ τοῦ κυρίου μου Ἀμμωνιανοῦ καὶ τῶν
σῶν πάντων.
τὰς βόας πέμψον μοι πάντως ἐπεὶ χρείαν αὐτῶν
ἔχω εἰς τὰ χωρία. καὶ εἰ πρόφασιν ἔχεις ἐλθεῖν
εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἧκέ μοι ἐκεῖ πάντως καὶ νῦν
ἐλευσομένωι ἐκεῖ σὺν θεοῖς.
δρυης ουαρου αον…βειν
[v]
Ἀντωνίωι Μίνορι γεγομένωι βασιλικῶι γραμματεῖ Διοπολίτου μεγάλου.Translations (1)
[recto]
Sarapion to Antonius Minor, his dearest, greetings.
As I was sailing down to Alexandria I made a point of going to the lodging-house in Memphis belonging to the people of your estate, so that I might write to you from there, and I found no one going to you. Having sailed up with the prefect and having met Marcus our friend, I asked whether you had been there, and not finding you I made inquiries about your welfare, and having learned that you are well I went up rejoicing. So I write to you now, most honoured one, first greeting you and my lord Ammonianus and all your household, and then asking you by all means to lend me, through Morion's people, three full-grown cows, fine and large in body, to break the fallow land (?). For I need them for this. I urge you to make an effort to arrange this for me, so that you may also let me know their price and I will send it to you from here. For I was not able to give the price to Morion's man, who was in a hurry to leave, since it was unknown … was bought together. I pray for your health, my lord, together with my lord Ammonianus and all your household.
Send me the cows by all means, since I need them for the estates. And if you have occasion to come to Alexandria, come to me there by all means, since I too will now be going there, with the gods' help.
[…]
[verso]
To Antonius Minor, former royal scribe of the Great Diospolite nome.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 27113 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;8;503 tier-1
- HGV-Text 27113 tier-1
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