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p.mich.8.511 1. Hälfte III
Private Letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Ptolemaios to his father about wood for a banquet of Sarapis. A private letter from Ptolemaios to his father, telling his parents that he has taken the post of agoranomos (market official) for a banquet of the god Sarapis, which spares him the fees and earns him double portions. He asks his father to bring up five donkey-loads of wood for the banquet, promising to repay the costs. machine translation
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TM 30511.
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- Private Letter APIS-papyrus Memphis oder Ptolemais Euergetis ((First half of the) IIIrd century A.D.
- Ptolemaeus to his Father HGV-meta Memphis oder Ptolemais Euergetis (1. Hälfte III
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Πτολεμαῖος τῷ πατρὶ χαίρειν.
γινώσκειν σε θέλω καὶ τὴν μητέρα μου ὅτι σιωπητικοῦ τῆς
κλίνης δραχμαὶ κδ καὶ τόπου ἄλλαι δραχμαὶ κβ.
λογισάμενος οὖν ἦρκα ἀγορανομίαν ἵνα μήτε σιωπητικοῦ μήτε
τόπου δῶ, ἀλλὰ καὶ διπλᾶ μέρη λαμβάνω καὶ χορηγῶ αὐτοῖς ξύλα.
ἀπʼ ἐντεῦθεν οὖν φρόντισον καὶ
ἐὰν ἀναβῇς λήμψῃ τὸ ναῦλον
τῶν ὄνων. χρεία γάρ ἐστιν ε
γόμων. ἐὰν δὲ χρεία μου ᾖ πέμψον μοι φάσιν καὶ καταβήσομαι
μετὰ ἄλλων δύο φίλων ἵνα μὴ σὺ
κοπιᾷς. καὶ γὰρ ἀντειπεῖν ἄνθρωπος
οὐ δύναται τῷ κυρίωι Σαράπιδι. ἄλλη
γὰρ δίμηνός ἐστιν ἕως τῆς
κλίνης. ἐὰν δύνῃ τῷ σῷ ὄνῳ
ἀνενέγκαι αὐτά ἀνένεγκον καὶ
εὑρήσεις εἰς τὴν δαπάνην σου
τὰς δραχμάς.
ἔρρωσο.Translations (1)
Ptolemaios to his father, greeting.
I want you and my mother to know that the fee for silence (?) of the banquet couch is 24 drachmas and for the place another 22 drachmas. So, having reckoned it up, I have taken on the office of agoranomos, so that I pay neither the silence fee nor the place fee, but I even receive double portions, and I supply them with wood. From now on, therefore, take care of it, and if you come up you will receive the hire for the donkeys. For 5 loads are needed. If you need me, send me word and I will come down with two other friends so that you do not toil. For no man can refuse the lord Sarapis. For there are another two months until the banquet. If you can bring them up on your donkey, bring them up, and you will find the drachmas for your expenses.
Farewell.
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Memphis Oder Ptolemais Euergetis
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30511 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich;8;511 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30511 tier-1
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