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p.mich.mchl.26 frühes IIKaranis (Arsinoites)
Letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Dionysios to Theon about grazing animals and farm errands. A private letter from Dionysios to Theon about farm work at Karanis in the early 2nd century AD. He asks that Fabius' animals be kept back until the 12th so they start grazing green fodder on the 13th, after the newly sown vegetable seed has been watered, and sends six bundles of charlock along with errands about pitch, a dovecote vessel and papyrus. machine translation
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TM 26782.
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- Letter APIS-papyrus Karanis (Arsinoites)(early) IInd century A.D.
- Brief des Dionysios an Theon wegen landwirtschaftlicher Angelegenheiten HGV-meta Karanis (Arsinoites)frühes II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Διονύσιος Θέωνι τῶι
τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν.
εὖ ποιήσεις ἐπάν σοι
δόξῃ ἵνα τὰ κτήνη
τοῦ Φαβίου παραμείνῃ εἰς τὴν ιβ ὅπως
ἄρξωσι τῆς χλοροφαγίας τῇ ιγ. τοῦτο γὰρ
ἔδοξέ σοι ἵνα καὶ τὸ
κατατιθέμενον
λαχανόσπερμον
προκοπὴν σχῇ τῶν
ποτισμῶν πρὸ χλοροφαγίας. κόμισαι
λαψάνης δέσμας ἕξ .
διε……δ…ς
……… κ…
νωνεκην τῆς
Ἀντωνίης. ἐπὰν
οὖν παραγένῃ
δύνῃ ἐφειδεῖν αὐτούς. δὸς τὴν
πίσσαν Καρφιλᾷ
καὶ τὸ ἀγγεῖον τῶν
περιστερεώνων
καὶ τὸ λεπτίον.
κέλευσον δοθῆναί μοι χάρτην.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι
τιμιώτατε ……
… Τῦβι θ.Translations (1)
Dionysios to Theon, most honoured, greetings.
Please be so good, when it suits you, as to have the animals of Fabius stay until the 12th, so that they may begin the green-fodder grazing on the 13th. For this is what you decided, so that the vegetable seed being sown may get the benefit of the waterings before the green-fodder grazing. Receive 6 bundles of charlock. […] […] of Antonia. So when you come you can look after (?) them. Give the pitch to Karphilas, and the vessel of the dovecotes, and the small cloth (?). Order papyrus to be given to me.
I pray for your health, most honoured […]
[…] Tybi 9.
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Karanis
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 26782 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich.mchl;;26 tier-1
- HGV-Text 26782 tier-1
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