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p.oxy.17.2155 IV
Letter of Helenus via HGV-meta
Letter from Helenos to Silvanus asking for money for estate works. A private business letter from Helenos to Silvanus asking him to send 2 talents to pay creditors from Ibion, monthly workers and craftsmen, since no wine has been sold. He also reports that the potter Heron was arrested by the village headman Kiales and enrolled in a dekania (a group liable for compulsory service). Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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· Greek
Transcription
[ctr]
Ἕλενος Σιλβανῷ τῷ κυρίῳ
μου ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν.
καὶ διὰ Πεκύσιος τοῦ ὀνηλάτου
σοι ἔπεμψα ἵνα πέμψῃς ἡμῖν εἰς τὰ ἔργα δύο τάλαντα ἵνα
εὕρωμεν δοῦναι τοῖς ἀπὸ Ἰβιῶνος, πάνυ γὰρ ἐνοχλοῦμαι
ὑπʼ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἵνα τοῖς καταμηνίοις
ἡμῶν δῶ καὶ τοῖς πλαστοποιοῖς
καὶ εἰς τὰ ἄλλα ἔργα. οἶνον γὰρ
οὐδεὶς ἠγόρασεν ἀφʼ ἡμῶν.
κατεσχέθη Ἥρων ὁ κεραμεὺς
ὑπὸ τοῦ Κιαλῆ τοῦ κωμάρχου
καὶ ἔβαλε αὐτὸν εἰς τὰς δεκανίας ἄρας ἄλλους τοὺς ὄντας ἐν τῇ δεκανίᾳ καὶ τοῦτον
ἔβαλεν. διελέχθην οὖν αὐτῷ τούτου ἕνεκεν καὶ πρότερον
κήδεσθαι.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι
πολλοῖς χρόνοις.
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ἐνοχλοῦσι δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ αἱ δεκανίαι ἕνεκεν τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ τῆς
τιμῆς τοῦ οἴνου καὶ τοῦ ὀνηλάτου τοῦ ἀπερχομένου εἰς τὸ μεγα…[…]…Translations (1)
Helenos to Silvanus, my lord brother, greeting.
I have also sent to you by Pekysis the donkey-driver, so that you may send us 2 talents for the works, so that we may be able to give to the people from Ibion, for I am greatly troubled by them, and so that I may pay our monthly workers and the potters (?) and for the other works. For no one has bought wine from us.
Heron the potter was arrested by Kiales the komarch, and he put him into the dekaniai, having removed others who were in the dekania and put this man in. So I spoke to him about this and (?) to take care.
I pray for your health for many years.
[left margin] The dekaniai are also troubling us on account of our men, concerning the price of the wine and the donkey-driver who is going to the […]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 32836 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;17;2155 tier-1
- HGV-Text 32836 tier-1
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