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p.oxy.56.3869 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

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Letter from Ioannes to Anoup with instructions on estate business. A Christian-era business letter from Ioannes to Anoup, apparently an estate agent, with a string of instructions: sending a field-guard to Prychthis for a double sack and sandals, collecting 123 solidi, obtaining wood, pigeons and grain records, and pressing debtors. It comes from Oxyrhynchus, 6th to 7th century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] … ☧ πέμψον Μουσαῖον τὸν ἀγροφύλακα εἰς Πρύχθεως ἵνα ἐνέγκαι μοι τὸ δισάκκιν τὸ γενάμενον εἰς λόγον μου καὶ τρία σανδάλια καλὰ τέλεια πυκνὰ πάνυ. οὕτως οὖν εἰπὲ αὐτῷ καὶ φρόντισον τοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἐνεγκεῖν μοι νομισμάτια ρκγ, ὡς καὶ ἄλλοτε ἔγραψά σοι, ἐκτὸς λημματισμοῦ καὶ ποίησον τοὺς ἀγροφύλακας πέμψαι μοι τὸ καμήλιν τῶν ξύλων. ἐπειδὴ Πέτρος Πάπου προσφεύγει σοι, ποίησον τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ ἐνεχθῆναι εἰς τὴν ξενίαν καὶ ἀπαίτησον αὐτήν. ποίησον Μουσαῖον Παγένει καὶ Σουροῦς Δαυῒτ δοῦναι τῇ Ἡραίδι τὸ ἓν νόμισμα ὃ ἀντεφώνησαν αὐτῇ ὑπὲρ Ἡραίδος ὑπὲρ τῶν δεσποτικῶν ἤγουν πέμψον αὐτοὺς διʼ ἀγροφύλακος εἰς τὴν πόλιν. φρόντισον ἐνεγκεῖν ἄνω τὰ διφθέρια ὅλα καὶ τὴν ἔχθεσιν τοῦ σίτου καὶ εἴκοσι περιστερόπουλα καὶ ἀσφάλισον τὰ κελλία ὡς χρή. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς περὶ τῶν σανδαλίων καὶ τοῦ δισακκίου καὶ τοῦ σάγματος καὶ λαβὲ παρὰ τοῦ σαγματοράπτου δύο παρὲκ εἰς τὸ σάγμα καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ δισακκίου εἰπὲ τῷ Μουσαίῳ ἵνα ἀντιφωνήσῃ τῷ σκυτεῖ, ἄδελφε. [v] ☧ ἐπίδος τῷ θαυμασιωτάτῳ Ἀνοῦπ παρὰ Ἰωάννου.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] […] ☧ Send Mousaios the field-guard to Prychthis so that he may bring me the double sack that was made on my account, and three good sandals, finished, very close-stitched. So tell him this, and take care to collect and bring me 123 solidi, as I wrote to you on another occasion too, apart from the collection-fee (?). And have the field-guards send me the camel-load of wood. Since Petros son of Papas is taking refuge with you, have his wife brought to the guest-house and make demand of her. Have Mousaios son of Pagenes and Sourous son of David give to Herais the one solidus which they guaranteed to her on behalf of Herais for the estate dues, or else send them by a field-guard to the city. Take care to bring up all the parchments and the statement of the grain and twenty young pigeons, and secure the storerooms as is necessary. Do not neglect the matter of the sandals and the double sack and the pack-saddle, and get from the saddle-maker two (?) for the pack-saddle; and as for the price of the double sack, tell Mousaios to guarantee it to the leather-worker, brother. [verso] ☧ Deliver to the most admirable Anoup from Ioannes.

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