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p.oslo.2.53 II
Letter to a Chief Physician via HGV-meta
Letter from Theon to Ammonios the chief physician about grapes, bread and purchases. A private letter from Theon to Ammonios, a chief physician, acknowledging receipt of a sealed basket of fresh grapes and sending back bread and rolls through the same carrier, Petechon. Theon also mentions donkey work from Hathyr 13, a pending matter, and asks Ammonios to buy him figs and another item weighing 5 minas and to tell him the price. It dates to the 2nd century AD, from an unknown place in Egypt. machine translation
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TM 28901.
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- Letter to a Chief Physician HGV-meta unbekanntII
- Private letter APIS-papyrus Unknown place, province of EgyptIInd century A.D.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
Θέων Ἀμμωνίῳ τῷ ἀρχιατρῷ
χαίρειν. ἐκομισάμην παρὰ Πετεχῶντος
κίστην ἐσφραγισμένην μεστὴν σταφυλῆς
χλωρᾶς. κόμισαι παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ καθαροὺς ἄρτους δώδεκα καὶ τὴν κίστην ἔχουσαν κολλούρας
πέντε , καθαροὺς καθὼς ἔγραψας. καθʼ ἡμέραν
ἄξει τοὺς ὄνους ἀπὸ ιγ τοῦ Ἁθύρ· λαμβάνει κριθῆς
χ ?. κάθηται πρὸς[…]Χεμμ…νεωσ…ρωθ…η… ἐὰν ἐκβῇ δηλώσω σοι περὶ τοῦἀναγκαίου καὶ λάβε παρʼ αὐτοῦ
τιμήν· ἀγόρασόν μοι σῦκα καὶ ανκ…λην ὁλκῆς
μνᾶς πέντε · πέμψον μοι. δήλωσον τιμὴν
ἥν με θέλεις δοῦναι .Translations (1)
Theon to Ammonios the chief physician, greetings. I received from Petechon a sealed basket full of fresh grapes. Receive from the same man 12 loaves of pure bread and the basket containing 5 rolls (kollourai), pure, as you wrote. Every day he will drive the donkeys from the 13th of Hathyr; he receives barley […]. He is sitting by […] Chemm… […] if he comes out, I will inform you about the necessary matter, and take from him the price. Buy me figs and […] weighing 5 minas; send them to me. Tell me the price you want me to pay.
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 28901 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oslo;2;53 tier-1
- HGV-Text 28901 tier-1
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