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p.oxy.42.3060 IIOxyrhynchos
Letter of Ptolemaeus to Horis via HGV-meta
Letter from Ptolemas to his brother Horis about goods received. A private letter from Ptolemas to his brother Horis acknowledging receipt, via Sarapas, of a consignment of clothing, household goods and food, noting a missing mina of wool. He also asks for a garment to be sent to Tryphonas, and reports pawning white garments to buy grain and borrowing eight drachmas. It dates to the 2nd century AD, from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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- Letter of Ptolemaeus to Horis HGV-meta OxyrhynchosII
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Transcription
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Πτολεμᾶς Ὡρεῖτι τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν.
ἐκομισάμην ἐφίππια παρὰ Σαραπᾶτος καὶ
σύνθεσιν σπανὴν ἡμιτριβῆ τεθεραπευμένην
καὶ ἐπικάρσιον ὁμοίως ἡμιτριβῆ καὶ τῷ παιδί μου
κούκκολον πορφυροῦν ἄγναφον καὶ ἄλλο χιτώνιον ζμαράγδινον πάντα ἐν εἰλήματι καινῷ
λεντίῳ καὶ κανίσκιον ὑελοῦν καὶ κεράμιον ταριχίων καὶ κράβαττον καὶ κασσιτέρινα ἀγγεῖα τρία
ἐν σαλωδίῳ …α γυναικεῖα δ χιτώνιον λευκὸν
παιδικὸν καὶ κάμπτραν καὶ ῥάβδον. οὐκ ἐκομισάμην τὴν μνᾶν τοῦ ἐριδίου τοῦ λωτίνου.
πέμψον Τρυφωνᾶτι τὴν συρίαν ἐπεὶ αὐτός
με ὑπηρετεῖ. ὑποτέθειμαι τὰ ἱμάτια τὰ λευκὰ ἕνεκα τιμῆς σίτου ἵνα φάγωμεν.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.
κέχρημαι παρὰ Τρυφωνᾶτος δραχμὰς ὀκτώ .
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ἀπόδος Ὡρεῖτι ἀπὸ Πτολεμᾶτος ἀδελφῆς …Translations (1)
Ptolemas to Horis his brother, greetings.
I received from Sarapas a saddle-cloth (?) and a scanty (?) outfit, half-worn, repaired, and a cross-band (?) likewise half-worn, and for my child an unfulled purple hooded cloak and another emerald-green tunic, all in a new linen wrapping, and a glass basket and a jar of salted fish and a bed and three tin vessels in a basket, … 4 women's …, a white child's tunic, a box and a staff. I did not receive the mina of lotus-coloured wool. Send the Syrian (cloak?) to Tryphonas, since he serves me. I have pawned the white garments for the price of grain so that we may eat.
I pray for your health.
I have borrowed eight drachmas from Tryphonas.
[verso]
Deliver to Horis from Ptolemas, sister (?) …
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- TM-Text 26812 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;42;3060 tier-1
- HGV-Text 26812 tier-1
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