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p.mich.mchl.28 III - IVDiospolis Magna (Theben)
Private letter via APIS-papyrus
Letter from Ninnas to Julius Silvanus about negligent slaves and payments. A business letter from Ninnas to Julius Silvanus at Diospolis (Thebes), complaining that Silvanus' slave boys, especially the insolent Eutyches, have not paid what they owe or done their assigned work. He reports a payment of 40 drachmas from Nemesas, asks how to send the rents, and adds instructions to send olives to Hestia and little Manos. machine translation
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TM 30321.
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- Private letter APIS-papyrus DiospolisIIIrd/IVth century A.D.
- Brief des Ninnas an Silvanus in einer geschäftlichen Angelegenheit HGV-meta Diospolis Magna (Theben)III - IV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Νιννᾶς Σιλβανῶι τῶι τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν.
ταύτην σοι ἔγραψα τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐπὶ τῷ ὅρμῳ. οὐδείς μοι
τῶν σῶν παιδαρίων οὐδὲν δέδωκεν τῶν ἀνὰ χεῖρά σου ὑπὸ
αὐτῶν ὀφειλομένων ἀλλὰ τρίτην μοι ἕστακαν. μάλιστα δὲ ὁ
Εὐτυχῆς μετὰ καὶ ὕβρεως ἵνα
αὐτῷ λαλήσω ὅτε ἐδίδου Τούρβωνι λαχάνου ἀρτάβας γ καὶ πυροῦ
ἀρτάβας β καὶ Πιῆλτι πυροῦ ἀρτάβας ϛ.
καὶ τὴν ἄμην αὐτοῦ Ἀπολλῶς
καὶ Σαραπίων ἦρκε ὑπὲρ ὀφειλῆς.
καὶ οὐδέν μοι ἀπεφήνατο εἰ μὴ
λοιδορεῖος καὶ ἐντελλόμενός
μοι. καὶ οὐδὲν τῶν ἐνετείλου αὐτοῖς ἔργων ἐποίησαν οὔτε ὑπέσχισαν, ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια ἔργα γίνεται ἃ καὶ ἐλθόντος σου ἐπόψῃ καὶ μαρτυρηθήσεταί σοι. ἤνεγκέ μοι Νεμεσᾶς ὑπὲρ
παλαιοῦ λόγου σήμερον δραχμὰς
τεσσαράκοντα καὶ λέγει, φροντιῶ τῶν λοιπῶν. γράψεις πῶς τοὺς
φόρους σοι πέμψω, εἰ μὴ οὐ δύναμαι πέμψαι. οἶδα γὰρ ἐγὼ
τί κεχείμασμαι. ἄσπασαι Κρισπίναν καὶ Διογέναν καὶ Σαβίναν
καὶ Στρόγγυλον. ἀσπάζονταί σε
οἱ ἐν οἴκῳ πάντες καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ
τῆς γλυκελαίας πέπρακαν.
ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι.
Τῦβι γ
Ἑστίᾳ ἐλαίας μελαίνης Βουρίου ἀρτάβας β καὶ
τῷ μικρῷ Μάνῳ γλυκελαίας ἀρτάβην α 𐅵
[v]
Ἰουλίῳ Σιλβανῶι εἰς Διὸς πόλιν παρὰ ΝιννᾶTranslations (1)
[recto]
Ninnas to the most honoured Silvanus, greetings.
I wrote you this letter at the harbour. None of your slave boys has given me any of the amounts owed by them that are in your hands, but they have kept me waiting for three days (?). Above all Eutyches, even with insolence, (refusing?) that I should speak to him when he was giving Tourbon 3 artabas of vegetables and 2 artabas of wheat, and Pielis 6 artabas of wheat. And Apollos and Sarapion took his sand (?) on account of a debt. And he declared nothing to me except abusing me and giving me orders. And they did none of the tasks you ordered them, nor did they promise to, since from now on the necessary work is being done, which you will see for yourself when you come, and it will be attested to you. Nemesas brought me today, on an old account, 40 drachmas, and says, 'I will see to the rest.' You will write how I am to send you the rents, unless I cannot send them. For I know what I have suffered this winter. Greet Crispina and Diogena and Sabina and Strongylos. All those in the house greet you, and they have sold the rest of the sweet olives.
I pray for your health.
Tybi 3.
To Hestia 2 artabas of black Bourian olives, and to little Manos 1 1/2 artabas of sweet olives.
[verso]
To Julius Silvanus at Diospolis, from Ninnas.
Connections
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Diospolis Magna (Theben)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30321 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.mich.mchl;;28 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30321 tier-1
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