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p.oxy.38.2835 Mitte IOxyrhynchos

Business Letter via HGV-meta

Business letter from Dioskoros to Mnesitheos about the price of oil. A fragmentary business letter from Dioskoros to Mnesitheos concerning the price of oil, money and goods sent, in which Dioskoros asks to be released from some obligation. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the mid-first century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] Διόσκορος Μνησιθέῳ τῷ[…] καὶ ὑγιαίνειν. γράφεις[…]ὅτι[…] κατε…ύηκε τὴν τιμὴν[…] σοι ἔγραψα περὶ τούτου …[…]παρακαλῶ ἀπαλλάξαι με α[…] γὰρ ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ πολλα…[…] ριστίαν. γράφεις δέ μοι […] οὕτως ἔσταλκα πρὸς αὐτὸν[…] τα…ματα καὶ οὐδὲν[…] [r,m] […]αίως καὶ ἔγραψάν μοι […]… ἀργύριον ἕως ἔλθωσι ἐπι……[…] [r,msup] ἀριθμει[…] καὶ ου κομιζ[…]…αι τὸ ἔλαιον[…] πρὸ τοῦ σὲ λαβεῖν τὴν τιμὴν[…] [v] … […]…νέσχημαι αὐτὸν χάριν πλοι[…] […]του… καὶ σὺ περὶ ὧν ἐὰν χρείαν ἔχῃς[…] […]γυναικὸς ἕως ἂν παραγένωμαι[…] […]ιων τιμη ἐλαίου ἐπὶ τῶν …[…] […] Βφδ ἐὰν μὴ σῶς ᾖ ἡ τιμή. Μνησιθέῳ[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto, centre] Dioskoros to Mnesitheos, the […], [greetings] and good health. You write [that …] […] … the price […] […] I wrote to you about this … […] I urge you to release me […] for in the time many … […] […]. And you write to me […] thus I have sent to him […] … and nothing […] [recto, margin] […] … and they wrote to me […] … money until they come … […] [recto, upper margin] … count (?) […] and not receive (?) […] … the oil […] before you receive the price […] [verso] … […] I have kept (?) him for the sake of a boat (?) […] […] … and you, about whatever you need […] […] of the wife (?) until I arrive […] […] price of oil at the … […] […] 2,504 (?) if the price is not safe. To Mnesitheos […]

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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