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p.oxy.16.1856 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos
Letter from Christopher to George via HGV-meta
Letter from Christophoros to George asking help for his steward Joseph. A letter from Christophoros to George, count and administrator of a great estate (the 'glorious house') at Oxyrhynchus, in the 6th or 7th century AD. He asks George to make the people of three places pay his steward Joseph, who has received nothing so far and needs the money to pay the public taxes owed to the estate. machine translation
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- Letter from Christopher to George HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI - VII
- Letter from Christopher to George APIS-papyrus Oxyrhynchus6th or 7th century
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Transcription
[r]
† καθὼς καὶ κατὰ πρόσωπον παρεκάλεσα τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀδελφικὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν
ἐν τῷ ἐνδόξῳ οἴκῳ ἕνεκεν τῶν ἀπὸ Ἀκ[…]… καὶ Κλαυδιανοῦ καὶ Κευώθεως,
ἵνα τούτους παρασκευάσῃ πληρῶσαι Ἰωσὴφ τὸν εὐλαβέστατόν μου προνοητήν,
ὅπως καὶ αὐτὸς εὕρῃ δοῦναι τὰ ἐπιβεβλημένα αὐτῷ δημόσια ἐν τῷ ἐνδόξῳ
ὑμῶν οἴκῳ, ἐπεὶ οὖν καταλαβοῦσα τὰ ἐνταῦθα ἡ αὐτοῦ εὐλάβεια εἶπέν μοι
ὡς μέχρι τοῦ παρόντος τί ποτε οὐκ ἔλαβεν παρʼ αὐτῶν, παρακαλῶ οὖν τὴν ὑμετέραν
ἀδελφικὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν συνζεῦξαι αὐτῷ σύμμαχον περὶ τὴν ἐξάνυσιν τούτων.
διὰ γὰρ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ χάριτος ὑμεῖς ἔστε οἱ ταῦτα νέμοντες ὥσπερ καὶ τὸν ἔνδοξον οἶκον. †
[v]
† δεσπότῃ ἐμῷ τὰ πάντα μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ πάσης τιμῆς καὶ προσκυνήσεως ἀξίῳ γνησίῳ ἀδελφῷ Γεωργίῳ κόμετι καὶ διοικητῇ † Χριστοφόρος.Translations (1)
[recto]
† As I also asked your brotherly magnificence in person in the glorious house concerning the people from Ak[…] and Klaudianos and Keuothis, that you should induce them to pay Joseph, my most pious steward, so that he too may be able to pay the public taxes imposed on him in your glorious house: since, then, his piety, on arriving here, told me that up to the present he has received nothing at all from them, I therefore ask your brotherly magnificence to join with him as an ally for the completion of these matters. For by the grace of God you are the ones who administer these things, just as you do the glorious house. †
[verso]
† To my master in all things, most magnificent, worthy of all honour and reverence, true brother George, count and administrator, † Christophoros.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37862 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1856 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37862 tier-1
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