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p.oxy.22.2353 4. Sept. 32Oxyrhynchites
Private Letter via HGV-meta
Letter from Sinthonis to her son Harpokras about a slave and a piglet. A private letter from a mother, Sinthonis, to her son Harpokras about handing over a slave, money brought by another son Eros, goods sent from Koptos, and a piglet to be sacrificed. It is dated 4 September AD 32 and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome. machine translation
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TM 22223.
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- Private Letter HGV-meta Oxyrhynchites4. Sept. 32
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Σινθῶνις Ἁρποχρᾶτι τῷ υἱῶι πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν. κραζόμενα φάσκεις καὶ ἐγὼ φάσκω. λέγει Διδυμᾶς εἰδέναι ὅτι μέλλεις παραδοῦναι τὸν δοῦλόν μοι. ποιῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν Ἁρπουχρᾶ
δέκα ἔτη παρά σοι κομᾶν μὴ ἀποστῇ ἐπεὶ τὸ ἀργύριν ἐνήνοχέ μοι ὁ υἱὸς Ἔρως διακοσίας δραχμὰς καὶ ἐπιστόλιν εἴληφε παρὰ τοῦ Μεμφείτου ἑκατὸν δραχμῶν μέλλων εἰς τὴν ἑορτὴν δαπανῆσαι. ἀπέσταλκέ σοι ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἀπὸ Κώπτου· ἀπόστειλον Ἁρποχρᾶτι
τῷ ἀδελφῷ· οὐ λελύκαμεν αὐτά. οὐκ οἴδαμεν τί ἐκεῖ γέγραπται. ἐάν τι θέλῃς ἀπόστειλον εἴτε ἄρτους εἴτε πυρὸν ἀπόστειλον. εἰ
θέλεις ἀφῆσαι τὸ χοιρίδιον· μὴ θῦσαι ἕως ὅτου
ἔλθηι· ἀπόστειλον ἐὰν θέλῃς θῦσαι αὐτὸ·
τὸ χοιρίδιον ἀπόστειλον. ἐὰν ἔλθῃ ἡ ἀδελφὴ τῇ μητρὶ αὐτῇ μηδὲν λαβῇς παρʼ αὐτῆς
καὶ εὖ πράττειν.
ἔρρωσο
ἔτους ιθ Τιβερίου Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ ζ
[v]
ἀπόδος παρὰ Σινθώνεως Ἁρποχρᾶτι τῷ υἱῶιTranslations (1)
[recto]
Sinthonis to Harpokras her son, very many greetings and continual good health. What you say is being shouted about, I say too. Didymas says he knows that you are going to hand over the slave to me. Make him, Harpokras, let his hair grow with you for ten years (?), so that he does not run away, since my son Eros has brought me the money, 200 drachmas, and has received a letter (of credit?) from the Memphite for 100 drachmas, intending to spend it on the festival. Your brother has sent (things) to you from Koptos; send them to Harpokras your brother; we have not opened them. We do not know what is written there. If you want anything, send it, send either loaves or wheat. If you want to let the piglet go, do not sacrifice it until he comes; send word if you want to sacrifice it; send the piglet. If the sister comes to her mother, take nothing from her.
And farewell.
Goodbye.
Year 19 of Tiberius Caesar Augustus, month Sebastos 7.
[verso]
Deliver from Sinthonis to Harpokras her son.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 22223 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;22;2353 tier-1
- HGV-Text 22223 tier-1
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