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p.oxy.16.1867 VIIOxyrhynchos

Letter to a μείζων via HGV-meta

Letter to a headman of Outer Laura about seized oxen. A letter from a servant to Pamamios, headman of the Outer Laura quarter, about a dispute in which oxen belonging to farmers were seized. The writer asks that the headmen of the Inner Laura be written to so that both sides can go together and recover the equivalent of the oxen, pending a settlement when the landowner's representative arrives; Oxyrhynchus, 7th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † θέλω μαθεῖν τὸν ἐμὸν ἀγαθὸν δεσπότην[…] ταῖς γυναιξὶν τῆς ἀπὸ Ἀπόλλωνος […] …[…]… καὶ πάντα τὰ πράγματα …[…] καὶ ἔλαβαν τὰ βοίδια τῶν γεωργῶν ἡμῶν[…] ὅτι τὴν οὐσίαν θέλομεν τὴν ἔχει ὁ […] καὶ ἡ μὲν κ[…]…[…]ε[…]ερ[…]…εμοσαε[…]…[…]η[…] τοῦ βορινοῦ οἴκου ἵνα γράψῃ τοῖς μείζοσι[…] τὰ βοίδια ἡμῶν δίχα μάχης, τῆς δὲ λ…[…]… ἀπέλθωμεν καὶ φέρωμεν τὰ ἴσα τῶν βοιδίων. παρακαλῶ γράψαι μοι, παρακαλῶ δὲ τὸν ἐμὸν δεσπότην γράψαι καὶ τοῖς μείζοσιν Λαύρας Ἔσω καὶ ἐνεγκοῦσιν καὶ αὐτῶν ἄλλα δέκα ὀνόματα καὶ ἀπέλθωμεν ὁμοῦ καὶ ἐνέγκωμεν τὰ ἴσα τῶν βοιδίων. οὕτως γὰρ ἔδοξεν ἐπὶ τοῦ δεσπότου μου καὶ διοικητοῦ αὐτῶν, ἵνα τοῦ σὺν ὑμῖν δεσπότου ἡμῶν τοῦ ἀντιγεούχου ἐρχομένου συναλλάξουσιν ἡμᾶς κοινῶς. καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἐνεῖχεν ἕως ὅτε ἔλθῃ, δέσποτα, καθὼς ἔγραψές μοι ἐχθὲς διὰ πλοῖον, ἵνα μάθῃ οὖν, δέσποτα, ὅτι πλοῖον οὐκ ἔνι εἰς τὸν ὅρμον ἡμῶν εἰ μὴ τὰ ἁλιευτικά, δέσποτα. † [v] … † Παμαμίῳ μειζοτέρῳ Λαύρας Ἔξω † ὑμέτερος δοῦλος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † I want my good master to know […] to the women of the (estate/village?) of Apollo […] […] and all the things […] and they took the oxen of our farmers […] that we want the property which […] has […] and the […] of the northern house, so that he may write to the headmen […] our oxen without a fight, and of the […] let us go away and bring the equivalent of the oxen. I beg you to write to me, and I beg my master to write also to the headmen of Inner Laura, and let them bring also ten other names of theirs, and let us go together and bring the equivalent of the oxen. For so it was decided in the presence of my master and their administrator, that when our master the antigeouchos who is with you comes, they will settle with us jointly. And look, it was not possible until he comes, master, as you wrote to me yesterday by boat, so let him know, master, that there is no boat at our anchorage except the fishing boats, master. † [verso] … † To Pamamios, headman of Outer Laura † Your servant.

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