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p.oxy.10.1298 ca. 330Oxyrhynchos

Letter of Ammon via HGV-meta

Letter from Ammon to Gonas about a dispute over wine. A Christian private letter from Ammon to his friend Gonas (Gonatas), complaining that he is the subject of gossip and calling Gonas as witness to a dispute over a wine receipt for 66 spathia, for which a certain Gounthos charged him 7 talents per jar. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, around AD 330. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] τῷ δεσπότῃ καὶ ἀσυνκρίτῳ καὶ παραμυθίᾳ τῶν φίλων Γονᾶτι Ἄμμων χαίρειν. πρὸ παντὸς εὔχομαι τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ περὶ τῆς ὁλοκληρίας σου καὶ τῶν φιλτάτων σου. ἐγὼ μόνον πάνυ ἐμαυτὸν τηρῶν ὑπὲρ τὸν ἀσφαλὴν πᾶσαι αἱ λέσχαι τοῦ κόσμου περὶ ἐμὲ γίνονται. σὲ γὰρ μόνον ἔχω μάρτυρα πῶς ὁ Γοῦνθος δραξάμενός μου ἡνίκα Κάστωρ ὁ τοῦ Δαμοστράτου ἐπιμελητὴς ὢν τοῦ οἴνου ἀπέστειλέ μοι ὁ Γοῦνθος ἀποχὴν οἴνου σπαθίων ξϛ, ὑπὲρ Τρωίλου λϛ, ἐμοῦ κβ, Δίου η, καὶ ἐμοῦ παραγεναμένου ἐν τῷ Ὀξυρυγχίτῃ ὑπελόγησέ μοι ἑκάστου σπαθίου τάλαντα ζ, ὅπερ σὺ τούτου μεσίτης ἐτ…ς ὅτι ε… [… ? lines lost …] [v] τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Γονατᾷ Ἄμμων.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my master, the incomparable, the comfort of his friends, Gonas, Ammon, greetings. Before all I pray to the lord God for your health and that of your dearest ones. Though I alone keep myself quite beyond what is safe, all the gossip of the world is about me. For you alone I have as witness how Gounthos took hold of me when Kastor son of Damostratos, being overseer of the wine, sent me, Gounthos sent me, a receipt for 66 spathia of wine: on behalf of Troilos 36, for me 22, for Dios 8; and when I arrived in the Oxyrhynchite nome he charged to my account 7 talents for each spathion, in which matter you were the intermediary (?) that […] […] [verso] To my lord brother Gonatas, Ammon.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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