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p.oxy.12.1589 frühes IVAlexandria (?)

Letter from Alexandria (?) via HGV-meta

Letter about a property registration and a shipment of wine. Fragmentary private letter, probably written in Alexandria in the early 4th century AD, in which the writer explains that he arranged the recipient's registration (apographe) of property and asks him to send some wine, stating the cost of carriage, as he is coming to Egypt. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[1] […]χαίρειν. [… 8 lines lost …] […]ἔγραψά σοι ὡς [2] ἔγραψας μοι. γίνωσκε δὲ ὅτι ἐξ ἐμοῦ ἡ ἀπογραφή σου ἐγένετο, προτρέψας αὐτὸν οὕτως ἀπογράψασθαι ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ δυνηθῶ τὰ ἴσα ἀπογράψασθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πρὸς μέρος χωρίον σου ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ Αἰγύπτῳ. πᾶν ποίησον ἐπεὶ ἔρχομαι εἰς Αἴγυπτον, καὶ ἐὰν μοσθίον οἴνου μοι φορέτρισον, καὶ γράψον μοι τί δῶ αὐτῷ φόρετρον. ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς. ἔρρωσό μοι, κύριε.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] greeting. [… 8 lines lost …] […] I wrote (?) to you as [column 2] you wrote to me. Know that your registration came about through me, since I urged him to register in this way so that I too might be able to register the same, and also your share of the estate (?) in Egypt itself. Do everything, since I am coming to Egypt, and if (you can), send me a small measure (?) of wine by carrier, and write to me what I should pay him as carriage. But do not neglect this. Farewell, my lord.

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Found at Alexandria

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