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p.oxy.16.1842 VIOxyrhynchos

Letter to an Official via HGV-meta

Letter to an estate official about land survey and animals. A Christian letter from Oxyrhynchus, sixth century AD, written to an estate official addressed as 'your brotherliness'. The writer asks him to look after the animals, farmers and estate accounts and to have unflooded and unsown land surveyed, complains that staying where he is feels like being in an oven but that disorder has kept him from leaving, and reports sending off the animals. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] παρὰ ☧ τὰ γράμματα τῆς ὑμῶν ἀδελφότητος ἐδεξάμην, καὶ πρὸ τοῦ διακομίσασθαί με ταῦτα ἔγραψα αὐτῇ τὰ περὶ τῆς γεωμετρίας ὥστε ὑμᾶς ἀπελθεῖν μετὰ τῶν θαυμασιωτάτων γραμματέων. καὶ νῦν οὖν γράφω ὑμῖν σπουδάσαι τοῖς ζῴοις καὶ τοῖς γεωργοῖς καὶ τῷ γεουχικῷ λόγῳ καὶ γεωμετρηθῆναι τὰ ἄβροχα καὶ τὰ ἄσπορα. ἔγραψα δὲ καὶ τῷ κυρίῳ Παμουθίῳ περὶ τούτου. μὰ τὴν δὲ δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ οὕτως εἰμὶ ὡς εἰς κρίβανον μένων ἐνταῦθα μίαν ὥραν, ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐν πολλῇ ἐστιν διαστροφῇ καὶ τέως οὐ συνεχωρήθην ἐξελθεῖν τούτου χάριν ἕως ἄρτι οὐ κατέλαβον. τὰ δὲ ζῷα πρὸ ἄλλων γ ἡμερῶν ἐπεμψάμην κατασχὼν ἐνταῦθα εἰ μὴ ἓν μόνον. πολλὰ ὑμᾶς προσαγορεύω καὶ τὴν γλυκυτάτην μου ἀδελφὴν καὶ τὰ γλυκύτατα παιδία. ☧ [v]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] From […] ☧ I received the letter of your brotherliness, and before I had it delivered to me (?) I wrote to it about the land survey, that you should go out with the most admirable secretaries. So now too I write to you to take care of the animals and the farmers and the landowner's account, and to have the unflooded and unsown land surveyed. I have also written to the lord Pamouthios about this. By the power of God, staying here a single hour is for me like being in an oven; but since things are in great confusion and so far I have not been allowed to leave, for this reason I have not arrived until now. The animals I sent off 3 days ago, keeping only one here. I greet you warmly, and my sweetest sister and the sweetest children. ☧ [verso]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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