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Tauak an Eudaimon und Apia via HGV-meta

Letter from Tauak to Eudaimon and Apia about an aroura and wheat. A Christian letter from a woman named Tauak to Eudaimon and his wife Apia, complaining for the second time about one aroura of land and 6 artabas of wheat owed to her. She stresses that as a woman she cannot afford to buy wheat at current prices and warns them they will answer before God if they defraud her. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Εὐδαίμωνι καὶ τῇ ἀγαπητῇ ἀδελφῇ μου Ἀπίᾳ συμβίῳ σου Ταουὰκ ἐν Κυρίῳ χαίρειν. προηγουμένως εὔχομαι ἐν ταῖς προσευχαῖς μου ὑμᾶς ἀπολαβεῖν …ω ὑγιαίνοντας καὶ εὐθυμοῦντας ἀπολαβεῖν δια…εντα. τοῦτο δεύτερον ὑμῖν γράφω περὶ τῆς ἀρούρης μιᾶς · ὡς γὰρ ἴδετέ με ἐν τοιούτῳ καιρῷ καὶ ταῦτα οὐκ α…ὅτι τὸν καιρὸν σήμερον ἔχετέ μου τῶν ἀνὰ χεῖρα σίτου ἀρτάβας ϛ καίτοι οἴδατε τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ σίτου ὅτι γυνή εἰμι, οὐ δύναμαι ἀγοράσαι. οὐδὲ πάλιν ἐγράψατε ὅτι οὐ θέλομεν τὴν ἄρουραν. ἔστιν οπι… καζ… αὐτὴ λαβεῖν ἢ Ἐρισίᾳ δοῦναι, καὶ ἃ δέδωκα διʼ ὑμᾶς ὤφειλες ἀπὸ σεαυτοῦ ἀποστεῖλαί μοι τὰς ἓξ ἀρτάβας ἢ ὃ δήποτε διὰ τὰς τρ…… ἐὰν ἀποστερῇτέ με δηλώσατέ μοι καὶ ὄψετε πρὸς τὸν θεόν· ὁ γὰρ θησαυρὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμεῖς. ἀσπάζομαι πάντας τοὺς ἡμῶν κατʼ ὄνομα καὶ Πουῆρις ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς πάντας. ἐρρ[…] [v] κυρίῳ ἀδελφῷ Εὐδαίμωνι …

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my lord brother Eudaimon and to my beloved sister Apia, your wife, Tauak, greeting in the Lord. Before all I pray in my prayers to find you again […] healthy and in good spirits, to find you again […]. This is the second time I write to you about the one aroura. For as you see me in such a situation, and these things not […], that today you have the use (?) of my 6 artabas of wheat that were at hand. And yet you know the price of wheat, that I am a woman, I cannot buy. Nor again did you write, 'We do not want the aroura.' It is […] to take it myself or to give it to Erisias, and what I gave on your account, you ought yourself to have sent me, the six artabas, or whatever for the […]. If you are defrauding me, let me know, and you will see (to it) before God; for we are the treasure of God. I greet all of ours by name, and Poueris greets you all. Farewell […] [verso] To my lord brother Eudaimon […]

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