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p.oxy.17.2154 IVOxyrhynchites

Letter of Heraclides via HGV-meta

Letter from Herakleides to Heras demanding urgent dispatch of wool and workers. A private letter of the 4th century AD from the Oxyrhynchite nome in which Herakleides urgently asks his brother Heras to send people, money and wool the same day. He says he has been forced to buy wool at a high price and threatens to be confined in the Hadrianeion unless the goods arrive, and he also asks for tow and a basket for the anabolikon tax collected by the procurator's soldier. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρᾷ Ἡρακλείδης χαίρειν. πάντα ὑπερθέμενος ἀπόστειλόν μοι ἐν τῇ σήμερον Ἀντίνουν κράτιστον, εἶτα ἀργύρια αὐτοῦ τάλαντα ιϛ δραχμὰς Δ, καὶ Πορὶτ τέκτονα. ἐτελεύτησεν γὰρ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς ἐργάτας τοῦ Βουβαλίτου καὶ τοὺς κατεισαγωγεῖς τοῦ πάγου καὶ τὰ ἔρια ἐν τῇ σήμερον, καθὼς περιέχουσιν τὰ ἐπιστάλματα. ἐὰν μὴ ἀποστείλῃς τὰ ἔρια ἐν τῇ σήμερον, ἤδη γὰρ ἐποίησάν με ἀγοράσαι τὴν μνᾶν τοῦ ἐρίου δραχμῶν Γφ, καὶ λοιπὸν μὴ καταφρονήσῃς ὅτι ἐκ τιμῆς, καὶ ἐὰν μὴ ἀποστείλῃς μοι αὐτὰ ἐν τῇ σήμερον, νὴ τὸν θεὸν κατάκλειστός εἰμι εἰς τὸ Ἁδριανῖον· λοιπὸν βοήθησον. οὐ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ Παώμεως οὓς ἐνεγύησας Κοπρεῖ τῷ πραιποσίτῳ τῶν ταμιακῶν, ἐνγὺς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐπίτροπος. ἀπόστειλον δὲ σίππια εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἀναβολικὸν ὀλίγα, Ποτάμων γὰρ ὁ στρατιώτης τοῦ ἐπιτρόπου ἀνέβη ἕνεκεν τοῦ ἀναβολικοῦ. αὐτὸς οὖν ἀπόστειλον καὶ ἂν μίαν σαργάνην καὶ ὀλίγα ἔρια, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ ἴσος πᾶσι γένωμαι καὶ μὴ ὑβρισθῶ παρὰ τοῖς πᾶσιν. ποίησον δὲ Τειρᾶν ἀναβῆναι πρὸς μὲ καθὼς συνέταξεν τῷ ὀφφικιαλίῳ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος. ἄλλʼ ὅρα μὴ ἀμελήσης, εἰ βλέπω γὰρ ἀμελήσαντα,[…]ς. [… ? lines lost …] [v] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἡρᾷ Ἡρακλείδης.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] To my lord brother Heras, Herakleides, greetings. Putting everything else aside, send me today the most excellent Antinous, then his money, 16 talents 4,000 drachmas, and Porit the carpenter. For his brother has died. And (send) the workmen of Boubalites and the (?) importers of the pagus and the wool today, as the instructions contain. If you do not send the wool today... for they have already made me buy the mina of wool at 3,500 drachmas, so do not neglect it because it is at a price, and if you do not send them to me today, by God I am shut up in the Hadrianeion; so help me. Not only that, but also (send) those from Paomis whom you stood surety for to Kopres the praepositus of the treasury goods, for the procurator is near. And send a little tow for the temple anabolikon, for Potamon the soldier of the procurator has gone up on account of the anabolikon. So send yourself even one basket and a little wool, so that I too may be equal to everyone and not be insulted before all. And make Tiras come up to me, as he arranged with the officialis of the governor. But see that you do not neglect this, for if I see you neglecting it, […] [… lines lost …] [verso] To my lord brother Heras, Herakleides.

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