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p.oxy.12.1590 IVOxyrhynchites, Ägypten

Letter of Demetrianus via HGV-meta

Letter of Demetrianos about a debt and water-supply leases. Fragmentary end of a business letter from Demetrianos to several recipients, instructing them about a debt owed by a certain Syros and about persuading Aphynchis and his partner, water-suppliers of a canal or estate called Okeanos, to take on further leases. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] τοῦ ἀγορευτοῦ εὐθέως. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι. Σύρος δὲ ὁ πράτης οὐδεμίαν δεξιὰν ἔχει. εἴπατε αὐτῷ περὶ ὧν ὀφείλει. δότω οὖν ὡς ἄλλοτε ἔγραψα μετὰ συνπεριφορᾶς. Φαῶφι ϛ. ἐὰν ἰσχύσητε πεῖσαι Ἀφῦγχιν καὶ τὸν κοινωνὸν αὐτοῦ τοὺς ὑδροπαρόχους τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀμπελουριγικῶν μισθωτὰς γενέσθαι ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν ὑδροπαροχισμῶν ποιοῦσι, ἐρχόμενοι εἴπατε, ἐπεὶ ἀνάγκη μὲν ὑμῖν ἀργυρίου. καὶ θελήσατε μη[…] [r,ms] […]…ου σου ὥστε μεταβληθῆναι Νείλῳ τῷ […] [v] […] Δημητριανός.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] of the agoreutes (crier) immediately. I pray for your health. Syros the seller (?) has no assurance. Tell him about what he owes. Let him pay, then, as I wrote another time, with consideration. Phaophi 6. If you are able to persuade Aphynchis and his partner, the water-suppliers of the Okeanos, to become also lessees of the vineyard irrigation works (?), as they do in the case of the water-supply contracts, tell me when you come, since you are in need of money. And be willing […] [recto, margin] […] your […] so that it be transferred to Neilos the […] [verso] […] Demetrianos.

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Found at Oxyrhynchites

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