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p.oxy.16.1871 spätes VOxyrhynchos
Letter to a Cleric via HGV-meta
Letter to the cleric Pamouthios about a boat and camels for grain transport. A late 5th-century AD letter from Oxyrhynchus to a cleric named Pamouthios, addressed as 'our ageless father'. The writer urgently asks for a boat to transport the grain of Agathinos, promises to send a helper to Synkypha for the men and camels, and asks Pamouthios to find out from the bishop about the camels' freight charge. machine translation
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TM 35600.
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- Letter to a Cleric HGV-meta Oxyrhynchosspätes V
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
χμγ.
παρακαλῶ τὸν ἀγήρων ἡμῶν πατέρα καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν πέμψον μοι
τὸ πλοῖον ἵνα κοβαλεύωμεν τὸν σῖτον τοῦ Ἀγαθίνου, καὶ πέμψομαί
τινα σύμμαχον εἰς Συνκύφα διὰ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους καὶ τοὺς καμήλους.
καταξιώσῃ μάθε παρὰ τοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου ἐπισκόπου διὰ
ναῦλον τῶν καμήλων. μηδὲν οὖν ἀμελήσῃς τοῦτο φρόντισον.
πολλὰ δὲ προσαγορεύω τὴν σὴν θεοσέβειαν, κύριε δέσποτα. †
[v]
† ἐπίδος τῷ εὐλαβεστάτῳ καὶ θεοσεβεστάτῳ κυρίῳ Παμουθίῳ
παρὰ
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[… 2 lines lost …]Translations (1)
[recto]
643 (?).
I urge our ageless father to send me the boat at this very hour, so that we may transport the grain of Agathinos, and I shall send someone as a helper to Synkypha on account of the men and the camels. Please be so good as to learn from the most God-fearing bishop about the freight charge for the camels. So do not neglect anything; take care of this.
I greet your piety warmly, lord master. †
[verso]
† Deliver to the most reverend and most God-fearing lord Pamouthios
from […]
[…]
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 35600 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1871 tier-1
- HGV-Text 35600 tier-1
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