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p.oxy.42.3066 IIIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Apollonius via HGV-meta

Letter from Apollonios to Sarapammon about sesame, farm work and irrigation machines. A private business letter from Apollonios to Sarapammon, probably his estate agent, at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. He asks him to collect 2 artabas of sesame from Pamemphis, reproaches him for leaving without hearing instructions about sowing and rush-cutting, and orders that the irrigation machines be readied before the Nile flood. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ἀπολλώνιος Σαραπάμμωνι χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι σάκκον ἵνα λάβῇς παρὰ τοῦ Παμέμφιος σησάμου ἀρτάβας δύο καὶ ἀναπέμψῃς διὰ Ἀχιλλέως ἢ ἔχῃς παρὰ σοὶ ε[…]…[…]λθ[…] ἕως ἂν ἐρχόμενος μ…[…]…[…]αν τοῦ ἀχύρου καὶ ἀπέμεινας ἀλόγως, καίτοι βουλομένου μου εἰπεῖν σοι τὴν διαταγὴν τῆς κατασπορᾶς καὶ θρυοκοπίας τ…ν ἐπὶ τουτωι…ωι καὶ ὅπως καῇ ἡ δεῖσα. δήλωσον οὖν μοι εἰ μὴ ἑτοίμως ἔχει ὁ Μῶρος ἀνελθεῖν καὶ εἰ εὗρες παρὰ σοί. ἐργαζέσθω μετὰ Μέλανος τοῦ τέκτονος Πολυδεύκης ὁ μικρὸς καὶ μὴ αὐτοῦ ἀποστάτω· ἑτοιμασθήτωσαν οὖν αἱ μηχαναί, ἵνα μὴ ἀνέτοιμοι ὤμεθα μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Νείλου επι[…] τλείσθω τὰ κτήματα. ἔρρωσο. [v] Σαραπάμμωνι παρὰ Ἀπολλωνίου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Apollonios to Sarapammon, greetings. I have sent you a sack so that you may receive from Pamemphis 2 artabas of sesame and send them up through Achilleus, or keep them with you […] until, when coming, […] of the chaff. And you stayed away without reason, although I wanted to tell you the arrangements for the sowing and the rush-cutting […] on this […] and that the marshy ground (?) may be burned. So let me know whether Moros is not ready to come up, and whether you found […] with you. Let little Polydeukes work with Melas the carpenter and not leave him; so let the irrigation machines be made ready, so that we may not be unprepared after the […] of the Nile […] let the estates be […]. Farewell. [verso] To Sarapammon from Apollonios.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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