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p.oxy.56.3871 VI - VIIOxyrhynchos

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Letter from Georgios to Theodoros asking for a cloak and instructions. A Byzantine letter from Georgios, an estate official (epikeimenos), to Theodoros, a comes and majordomo, asking him to send an old woollen cloak back from the fuller because the weather has turned. He also asks for news of the family's health and of the estate owner's orders about sending him to Herakleopolis, as he is anxious to settle his accounts and return to Oxyrhynchus. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] † ☧ αἰτῶ τὴν ὑμετέραν γνησίαν ἀδελφότητα τὸ ὁλαίγειον καρακάλλιν τὸ παλαιόν, ὅπερ ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τοῦ κνάφεως, πέμψαι μοι διὰ Θεοδώρου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου μειζοτέρου, ἐπειδή, ὡς οἶδεν, ἠλλάγησαν οἱ ἀέρες. τὴν δὲ ὑγίειαν αὐτῆς καὶ τῶν παιδίων αἰτῶ αὐτὴν σημᾶναί μοι καὶ τὸ τί κελεύει ὁ κοινὸς δεσπότης ὁ ἐνδοξότατος ἀντιγεοῦχος ἕνεκεν τοῦ πεμφθῆναί με ἐν τῇ Ἡρακλέους, ἐπειδὴ πάνυ μεριμνῶ διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν γράφειν μοι συνεχῶς ἀποκαθαρίσαι τὸν λόγον μου ἐνταῦθα καὶ καταλαβεῖν τὴν Ὀξυρύγχων ☧ καὶ εἰ ἐκεῖ εἰσὶν ἀκμὴν οἱ Ἡρακλεοπολῖται †. [v] ☧ δεσπότῃ ἰδίῳ καὶ ἀδελφῷ Θεοδώρῳ κόμιτι μειζοτέρῳ † Γεώργιος ἐπικείμενος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] † ☧ I ask your genuine brotherliness to send me the old all-wool (?) cloak, which he received from the fuller, through Theodoros the most illustrious majordomo, since, as he knows, the weather has changed. And I ask her to let me know about her health and that of the children, and also what our common master the most glorious antigeouchos orders regarding my being sent to Herakleopolis, since I am very anxious because he keeps writing to me to clear up my account here and to reach Oxyrhynchus ☧, and whether the Herakleopolitans are still there †. [verso] ☧ To my own master and brother Theodoros, comes and majordomo, † Georgios, epikeimenos.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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