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p.oxy.12.1591 IVOxyrhynchites

Letter of Demetrius via HGV-meta

Letter from Demetrios to Anicetus about bread rations. A private letter from Demetrios to his "son" Anicetus, telling him not to make the small bread rations (psomia) because ready-made ones have been found where Demetrios is, and urging him to come out to join him. 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] κυρίῷ μου υἱῷ Ἀνεικήτῳ Δημήτριος χαίρειν. πᾶν ποίησον βοήθησον μὴ ποιήσῃς τὰ ψωμία. ἐπεὶ γὰρ εὑρήκαμεν ὧδε πεποιημένα ψωμία, τοίνυν οὖν μὴ ἀμελήσῃς καὶ ποιήσῃς αὐτά. βοήθησον οὖν τοίνυν ἔξελθε πρὸς ἡμᾶς, [… 1 line lost …] [… ? lines lost …] [v] [… 4 lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my lord son Aneiketos (Anicetus), Demetrios, greetings. Do everything (you can), help, do not make the bread-morsels. For since we have found bread-morsels already made here, therefore then do not neglect (this) and make them. Help, then, therefore; come out to us, […] […] [verso] […]

Connections

Found at Oxyrhynchites

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