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p.oxy.51.3644 IIIOxyrhynchos
Heras to Papontos via HGV-meta
Letter from Heras to his father Papontos about an assault by Sabina. A private letter from Heras to his father Papontos, sending their man Harpokras to collect letters and reporting that he had been detained and made to swear an oath by a 'friend'. He also tells how Sabina struck Syra with the key of the exedra, leaving her bedridden, and then disappeared, reportedly to the Herakleopolite nome. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD. machine translation
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TM 30073.
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- Heras to Papontos HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r,ctr]
Ἡρᾶς Παποντῶτι τῷ
πατρὶ χαίρειν.
ἔπεμψά σοι Ἁρπουχρᾶν τὸν
ἡμέτερον ὅπως λάβῃ παρά
τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μου γράμματα ἐπιθηκῶν …ξα …, ἐπειδὴ
συνεσχέθην ὑπὸ Κερ…[…]ος
τοῦ φίλου καὶ ἠνάγκασέ με
ὀμόσαι αὐτῷ ὅπως ἐντὸς
τῆς κ ἀναδοθῆναι αὐτῷ
μετὰ πολλῆς ὕβρεως. ἐκ
ξη…ηση δὲ ε[…]Ἁρποχρᾶς
………[…]…[…]…[…]…
καὶ εὗρον τὴν Σαβεῖναν πεπληχυῖαν τὴν Σύραν καὶ ἐπυθόμην
αὐτῆς πῶς ἐπλήγη καὶ ἔμαθον ὑπὸ πάντων ὅτι διὰ τὸ
μὴ ἀφεθῆναι τῇ Σαβίνᾳ
ἄρτι ἃ εἶχε ἐντὸς αὐτῆς ᾗ κατεῖχε κλειδὶ τῆς ἐξέδρας ἔπληξε αὐτὴν καὶ μέχρι τῆς σήμερον ἡμέρας κατακλινής
ἐστιν. ἡ δὲ Σαβεῖνα ἀπὸ τῆς
δεκάτης ἀνεύρετος ἐγένετο
καὶ ἤκουσα ὅτι ἐν τω?ͅ Ἡρακλεοπολίτῃ ἐστίν. ἐρεῖ σοι δὲ Ἁρπωχρᾶς ἃ ἤκουσεν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἃ ἔπραξεν πράγματα. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι
Φαῶφι ιδ.
[r,ms]
ἀλλʼ ὅρα μὴ κατάσχῃς Ἁρποχρᾶν διὰ τὸ ἐπείγεσθαι περὶ τῶν
ἐπιθηκῶν.
[v]
[…]… Παποντῶτι πατρὶ παρὰ Ἡρᾶτος.Translations (1)
Heras to Papontos, his father, greeting.
I have sent you our Harpokras so that he may receive from my brother letters about the epithekai (?) […], since I was detained by Ker[…]os, the friend, and he forced me to swear to him that within the 20th it would be handed over (?) to him, with much insolence. […] Harpokras […]
[…]
and I found that Sabina had struck Syra, and I asked her how she was struck, and I learned from everyone that because Sabina was not just now allowed what she had inside, she struck her with the key of the exedra which she was holding, and to this very day she is bedridden. Sabina has been missing since the tenth, and I have heard that she is in the Herakleopolite nome. Harpokras will tell you what he heard in the city, the things she did. I pray for your health.
Phaophi 14.
[margin]
But see that you do not detain Harpokras, because of the urgency about the epithekai.
[verso]
[…] to Papontos, his father, from Heras.
Connections
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 30073 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;51;3644 tier-1
- HGV-Text 30073 tier-1
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