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p.oxy.16.1875 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos
Business Letter via HGV-meta
Letter asking for the lease of a whole house and payment of Kalends dues. A business letter from Oxyrhynchus of the 6th or 7th century AD. The writer asks the addressees to arrange a lease of a whole house in his name, since he cannot take only lord John's share, and to remind the steward of small payments due to him at the Kalends; he also promises to send leeks by boat. machine translation
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- Business Letter HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI - VII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
παρὰ […]
[…]ην τῆς ὑμετέρας ἀδελφότητος[…]
[…]… κύριος οὕτω ἑτερ[…]
[…]τα. χαρίζεται οὖν τὸ ὑμέτερον μέγεθος γράφειν[…]
[…] περὶ τῆς ὑγίειας αὐτοῦ […]
τ[…]…… τοῦ οἴκου ἔγνων καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ εὐχαρίστησα[…]
τὰ ἄλλα. διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς ποιῆσαι τὴν μίσθωσιν ὀνόματί μου,
ὅλου μέντοι τοῦ οἴκου, οὐ γὰρ δύναμαι τὸ μέρος τοῦ κυρίου Ἰωάννου
λαβεῖν μὴ ἔχων τὸ ἄλλο μέρος. προσκυνηθέντες ἐξ ἐμοῦ
προσειπεῖν καταξιώσατε τὸν εὐλαβέστατον οἰκονόμον καὶ ὑπομνῆσαι
τὴν αὐτοῦ θεοφιλίαν διὰ τὰ ὀλίγα μου καλανδικά, περὶ ὧν καὶ κατὰ πρόσωπον
ὑπέσχετό μοι εἰρηκὼς τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ περιβλέπτῳ λαμπρότητι
ὡς ταῦτα ἀποκρότως ὑμῖν ἔχει δοθησόμενά μοι διʼ ὑμῶν.
διὰ δὲ τοῦτο ἔγραψα διότι ἀναλώματα ἐνταῦθα ποιήσας ὀνειροπολῶ
ταῦτα. καὶ ἐνταύθα ὤν, πολλὰ τὰ ἴχνη ὑμῶν προσκυνῶ. τὰ δὲ κεφαλωτὰ
εὑρίσκων πλοίου πέμπω κατὰ τὴν ὑμετέραν κέλευσιν. †
[v]
…Translations (1)
[recto]
From […]
[…] of your brotherliness […]
[…] lord (?) thus other […]
[…]. Your greatness therefore will kindly write […]
[…] about his health […]
[…] of the house I learned, and for this I gave thanks […]
the other things. Therefore I urge you to make the lease in my name,
but of the whole house, for I cannot take the part of lord John
without having the other part. Having been greeted with obeisance by me,
please greet the most pious steward and remind
his God-belovedness about my few kalends-dues, concerning which he also promised me face to face, having told your admired splendour
that he has these firmly fixed to be given to me through you.
I wrote for this reason, that having incurred expenses here I am dreaming of
these. And while I am here, I make obeisance to your footsteps many times. As for the leeks,
if I find a boat I am sending them according to your order. †
[verso]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37873 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;16;1875 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37873 tier-1
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