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p.oxy.16.1831 spätes VTholthis (Oxyrhynchites)
Complaint of a μείζων via HGV-meta
Letter from Apa Nakios, headman of Tholthis, to Papas of Takona about a shepherds' fight. A letter from Apa Nakios, headman of the village of Tholthis, to Papas, headman of neighbouring Takona, complaining that Takona's shepherds fought with Tholthis's shepherds and drove off sheep into Takona's land. He asks Papas to restrain the shepherds and field-guards to avoid further clashes and to release what was taken. It dates to the late 5th century AD in the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation
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TM 35593.
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- Complaint of a μείζων HGV-meta Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)spätes V
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Transcription
[r]
παρὰ
† μείζονι κώμης Τακόνα. τινὲς μεταδεδώκασί μοι ὡς ὅτιπερ οἱ ποιμένες τῆς
σῆς κώμης ὑμῶν μάχην ἔσχαν πρὸς τοὺς ἡμῶν κώμης Θόλθεως
καὶ τῶν ἡμῶν προβάτων ἀποφέροντες εἰς τὴν ὑμῶν γῆν, καὶ ἔπεμψα
εἰσβῆναι τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἀγροφύλακας καὶ δεδώκασι τὴν ἐπιστήμην. θέλησον
οὖν παραγγεῖλαι τοῖς ἡμῶν ἀγροφύλαξιν καὶ τοῖς ποιμέσι τῆς ὑμῶν κώμης
εγωμενου δὴ τω ἀηδίαν γενέσθαι πρὸς ἡμᾶς …οε…ι πᾶς ὀφίλει οὐ εἰαδίαν
κινῆσαι. καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ὀφείλομεν ἀμφοτέρων κινῆσαι ἁψιμαχίας, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔχομεν πρᾶγμα μετὰ τῆς ἀδείας τῶν ἡμῶν παγάρχων πρὸς τὸ ὑμᾶς παραγγεῖλαι
τοῖς ἡμῶν διαφέρουσιν ἀπὸ μικρῶν ἕως μεγάλων πρὸς τὸ μὴ κινῆσαι μάχην πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς …[…]…ητ[…]α…[…]…σμ…[…]…ερι……[…]…τ…
οὐδὲ βοηθὸς ἡμῶν εμεσ…η η…[…]τε ὁ πάγαρχος. θελήσατε[…] νῦν ταῦτα
ἀπολῦσαι ἵνα μὴ ἄσπορος μείνῃ ἡ τούτου μηχανή.
[v]
☧ ἐπίδος …[…]… Παπᾷ μείζονι κώμης Τακόνα
παρὰ ἄπα Νακίου μείζονος Θόλθεως.Translations (1)
[recto]
From […]
† To the headman of the village of Takona. Some people have informed me that the shepherds of your village had a fight with those of our village of Tholthis, and were carrying off some of our sheep into your land; and I sent my field-guards to go in, and they have given the information. Please, therefore, instruct our (?) field-guards and the shepherds of your village […] that there should be no unpleasantness towards us […] everyone ought not to stir up unpleasantness. For indeed we ought not to stir up skirmishes on either side, for we have no business, with the permission of our pagarchs, except that you should instruct those belonging to us, from small to great, not to stir up a fight among themselves […] nor is our assistant […] the pagarch. Please […] now release these things, so that his water-wheel (?) may not remain unsown.
[verso]
☧ Deliver […] to Papas, headman of the village of Takona,
from Apa Nakios, headman of Tholthis.
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Tholthis (Oxyrhynchites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35593 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1831 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35593 tier-1
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