no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.oxy.55.3808 Ende I - Anfang IIOxyrhynchos
Demas (?) to Agathodaemon via HGV-meta
Letter from Demas to Agathos Daimon about supervising farm work. A private letter, probably from Demas to Agathos Daimon, asking him to supervise farm work so it is not neglected and to report problems to a manager. It also concerns a settlement with a certain Herakles over containers and green fodder from a marsh, with greetings to acquaintances. From Oxyrhynchus, late 1st or early 2nd century AD. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 25949.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Demas (?) to Agathodaemon HGV-meta OxyrhynchosEnde I - Anfang II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Δημᾶς Ἀγαθῷ Δαίμωνι τῷ
ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν.
πρὸ τῶν ὅλων ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.
ὡς καὶ κατʼ ὄψιν σε ᾔτησα, καὶ νῦν σοι
γράφω ἐπισχεῖν τοῖς ἔργοις τοῖς ἐν ἀγρῷ ἵνα μὴ ἀμεληθῇ καὶ ἐάν τι ᾖ ἀμελούμενον, δήλωσον τῷ καθηγητῇ. ἔγραψα δὲ αὐτῷ ἵνα τὸ τῶν
κενωμάτων τὸ πρὸς Ἡρακλῆν ἀπαρτίσῃ μετὰ σῆς γνώμης. ἀσφαλισάσθω οὖν αὐτὸν ὡς ὑπέσχου μοι,
ἵνα ἐλθὼν εἰς τὸν καιρὸν ἀποκριθῇ
ἡμῖν καὶ μὴ χείρων τοῦ πέρυσι γένηται.
ἄσπασαι Χελε…ραν καὶ ἔντειλαι αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν χλωρῶν τοῦ ἕλους. ἄσπασαι Δημήτριον τὸν φύλακα καὶ τὰ
παιδία αὐτοῦ.
ἔρρωσο ἄδελφε.
[v]
Ἀγαθῷ Δαίμωνι φίλωι.
ἀπὸ Δημᾶ
φίλου.Translations (1)
[recto]
Demas (?) to Agathos Daimon his brother, greetings.
Before all else I pray that you are well.
As I asked you in person, so now too I write to you to keep an eye on the work in the field so that it is not neglected, and if anything is being neglected, report it to the steward (?). I have written to him to settle with your approval the matter of the emptied (?) jars with Herakles. So let him secure him as you promised me, so that when he comes at the proper time he may answer to us and not turn out worse than last year.
Greet Chele…ras and instruct him about the green fodder of the marsh. Greet Demetrios the guard and his children.
Farewell, brother.
[verso]
To Agathos Daimon, friend,
from Demas,
friend.
Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 25949 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;55;3808 tier-1
- HGV-Text 25949 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 25949 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 25949 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 25949 (see that record)