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p.oxy.16.1858 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos
Letter from Menas to Theodore via HGV-meta
Letter from Menas to Theodoros about horses of the great house. A short letter from Menas, a chartularius (estate clerk), to his master Theodoros, comes and pagarch, at Oxyrhynchus in the 6th or 7th century AD. Menas explains that the great house has only one trained young horse, which he has sent by the stableman, and that its three other horses are fit only to carry loads. machine translation
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- Letter from Menas to Theodore HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI - VII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[r]
†
† καὶ διὰ τοῦ πεμφθέντος μοι παρὰ τῆς ὑμετέρας προστατικῆς μεγαλοπρεπείας
φύλακος γεγράφηκα αὐτῇ ὅτι εἰ μὴ ἓν ἱππάριν πεποιημένον ὑποκάτω
νεωτέρου οὐκ ἔχει ὁ ἔνδοξος οἶκος, καὶ τοῦτο ἔπεμψα διὰ τοῦ γραμματηφόρου
σταβλίτου. οἶδεν γὰρ κύριος, δέσποτα, εἰ μὴ τὰ ἄλλα τρία ἱπποκομικὰ
οὐκ ἔχει. καὶ ἐκεῖνα γὰρ οὐ ποιοῦσιν εἰς οἱονδήποτε πρᾶγμα, εἰ μὴ εἰς
γομάριν, ὡς καὶ ἄλλοτε γεγράφηκα αὐτῇ. †
[v]
† δεσπότῃ ἐμῷ τὰ πάντα μεγαλοπρεπεστάτῳ πάσης τιμῆς καὶ προσκυνήσεως ἀξίῳ γνησίῳ μετὰ θεὸν προστάτῃ Θεοδώρῳ κόμετι καὶ παγάρχῳ † Μηνᾶς χαρτουλάριος.Translations (1)
[recto]
†
† Also through the guard sent to me by your patronal Magnificence I have written to it that the glorious house has only one young horse (?) broken in under a young man (?), and this too I sent by the letter-carrying stableman. For the Lord knows, master, that it has only the other three pack-horses (?). And those are of no use for any purpose whatever except as beasts of burden, as I have also written to it on another occasion. †
[verso]
† To my master in all things, most magnificent, worthy of all honour and reverence, true patron after God, Theodoros, comes and pagarch, † Menas, chartularius.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37864 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1858 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37864 tier-1
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