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p.oxy.16.1832 V - VIOxyrhynchos
Letter concerning a Theft via HGV-meta
Letter about a woman who stole the sacred treasures of a church. A letter to a high-ranking official reporting that a woman who stole the holy treasures of the church of Aspidas has taken refuge with them in the village of Kegethis, whose headman refuses to surrender either the objects or the woman. The writer asks the official to order their return and urges him to come back soon. It dates to the 5th-6th century AD, from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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TM 35594.
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- Letter concerning a Theft HGV-meta OxyrhynchosV - VI
Inscriptions (1)
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
παρὰ
[…]α ἡ κλέψασα τὰ ἅγια κειμήλια τῆς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ Ἀσπιδᾶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς Κεγῆθιν
τὴν κώμην ἔχουσα ταῦτα, καὶ ὁ μείζων τῶν ἐκεῖ οὐκ ἀνέχεται οὐδὲ τὰ ἅγια κειμήλια
δοῦναι οὐδὲ τὴν γυναῖκα παραδοῦναι. παρακληθῇ οὖν ἡ ὑμετέρα μεγαλοπρέπεια
καὶ ἐμοὶ χαρίσασθαι καὶ ἑαυτὴν καὶ ἐν τούτοις τῷ θεῷ παραθέσθαι καὶ κελεῦσαι πρωτοτύπως
τὰ ἅγια κειμήλια ἀναδοθῆναι, εἰ δὲ συνορᾷ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκαν παραδοθῆναι, τοῦτο
κελεῦσαι γενέσθαι. χαρίζηται δὲ ἡμῖν λοιπὸν τὴν ἑαυτῆς ἐπάνοδον
ἡ σὴ μεγαλοπρέπεια, ἐπειδὴ οὐ μικρῶς ὀλιγωρῶ διὰ τὴν τοσαύτην
αὐτῆς ἀπουσίαν. ☧
[v]
† ἐπίδος τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ ……… καὶ περιβλέπτῳ …ε……[…]Translations (1)
[recto]
From […]
[…]a, the woman who stole the holy treasures of the church of Aspidas, has entered the village of Kegethis with them, and the headman of the people there refuses either to give up the holy treasures or to hand over the woman. May your magnificence therefore be entreated to do me this favour and thereby commend yourself to God, and to order in the first instance that the holy treasures be given back, and, if it sees fit, that the woman too be handed over, to order this to be done. And for the rest, may your magnificence grant us your return, since I am greatly distressed by your so long absence. ☧
[verso]
† Deliver to the most magnificent […] and admirable […]
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35594 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1832 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35594 tier-1
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