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Letter from the Landlady to Papnuthis and Hatres via HGV-meta

Letter from a landowner to Papnouthios and Hatres about oxen for hauling stone. A letter from a woman landowner to her steward Papnouthios and manager Hatres at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD, ordering them to send an ox-driver with calves, yoke and ropes that same day to the hamlet of Akindynos to haul stone for the brothers Nepotianus and Diogenes. She stresses urgency, since the work is set for Sunday, the next day, and warns that negligence would shame her. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

παρὰ τῆς γεούχου Παπνουθίῳ προνοητῇ καὶ Ἁτρῇ φροντιστῇ χαίρειν. σπουδάσατε τὸν ταυρελάτην μετὰ τῶν μόσχων καὶ τοῦ ζυγοῦ καὶ σχοινίων αὐτῶν ἐξελάσαι ἐν τῇ σήμερον εἰς τὸ ἡμέτερον ἐποίκιον Ἀκινδύνου πρὸς σύρσιν λίθου τῶν κυρίων μου ἀδελφῶν Νεπωτιανοῦ καὶ Διογένους· οἴδατε καὶ ὑμεῖς ὅτι οὔκ εἰσιν ξένοι. ἀλλὰ πάντως ἐν τῇ σήμερον, ἐπειδὴ συνέθεντο βαστάξαι ἐν τῇ κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ, τουτέστιν αὔριον ια. μὴ οὖν, ἀδελφοί, δόξητε ἀμελῆσαι καὶ ἐνεδρευθῇ τὸ ἔργον τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐμοὶ δὲ οὐκ ὀλίγην ὕβριν προσηνέγκατε. περὶ δὲ τοῦ τροχοῦ ἀρκετοί ἐστε. ἐν τῇ αὔριον ὁ ἀδελφὸς Λούκιος ἀπαντᾷ πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
From the landowner to Papnouthios, steward (pronoetes), and Hatres, manager (phrontistes), greetings. Make haste to drive out today the ox-driver with the calves and the yoke and their ropes to our hamlet (epoikion) of Akindynos, for hauling stone for my lords the brothers Nepotianus and Diogenes; you know yourselves that they are not strangers. But by all means today, since they have agreed to carry it on the Lord's day, that is, tomorrow the 11th. So, brothers, do not appear to neglect this, and so the people's work be thwarted, and you will have brought no small insult upon me. As for the wheel, you are competent. Tomorrow brother Lucius is coming to meet you.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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