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p.oxy.16.1929 1. Hälfte VIOxyrhynchos

Letter from Asclas via HGV-meta

Letter from Asklas to the secretary Abonas about boats and grain. A business letter from Asklas to the secretary Abonas at Oxyrhynchus about repairing and locating boats needed for transporting grain to the Nile, loading cargo, and accounts of payments in gold solidi. It dates to the late Roman or early Byzantine period. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] παρὰ † τὰ γράμματά σου ἐδεξάμην περὶ τοῦ πλοίου Καλῶλ. διὰ τὸν θεὸν μὴ ἀμελήσῃς τοῦ ῥωῆσαι τοῦτο ἐπειδὴ ἄλλως καιρός ἐστιν μάλιστα καὶ χρείαν ἔχομεν τὰ πλοῖα. φροντίσαι οὖν τοῦτο πάραυτα ῥογῆσαι, καὶ περὶ τὸ πλοῖον Φιλοστράτου μὴ ἀμελήσῃς τοῦ ζητῆσαι τοῦτο, ἐπειδὴ ἔγραψα πρὸς τὸν κῦρον Ἡλιώτορον περὶ τούτου, καὶ γὰρ χρείαν αὐτῶν ἔχομεν, καὶ γὰρ τὰ πλοῖα ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐσχόλασε ἐλθεῖν εἰς τὸν μέγαν ποταμὸν καὶ θέλω βαλεῖν τὸ μέτρον Φιλοστράτῳ καὶ Πτολέμᾳ. ἔγραψα δὲ ……υν ὀμόσαι τὸν ὅρκον … οὕτως βαλεῖν τὴν λοιπάδα εἰς τὸ πλοῖον. καὶ περὶ τῆς τιμῆς τοῦ σίτου Φιλοστράτου φρόντισον … καὶ γράψον μοι ὅτι πόσον ὁλοκόττινον δέδωκα ἄπα Νακίῳ, ἵνα μάθῃ πόσον ὀφείλω πέμπειν αὐτῷ, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῆς […] παρακρατῆσαι νομίσματα ι [… 2 lines lost …] [v] † ἐπίδος τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ ἀδελφῷ Ἀβωνᾷ γραμματεῖ παρὰ Ἀσκλᾶ.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] From […] † I received your letter about the boat of Kalol. For God's sake do not neglect to repair (?) it, since it is otherwise the right season above all and we need the boats. So take care to repair it at once. And about the boat of Philostratos, do not neglect to look for it, since I wrote to the lord Heliotoros about it; for indeed we need them, and indeed our boats have not had time to come to the great river, and I want to load the measure on Philostratos and Ptolemas. I wrote … to swear the oath … thus to load the remainder onto the boat. And about the price of the wheat of Philostratos take care … and write to me how many solidi I have given to Apa Nakios, so that he may learn how much I owe to send him; but also about the […] to withhold 10 solidi […] [… 2 lines lost …] [verso] † Deliver to my most honoured brother Abonas, secretary, from Asklas.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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