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p.oxy.56.3873 VIOxyrhynchos
Business letter via HGV-meta
Urgent letter requesting a reply about letters sent the day before. A Christian-era business letter from Oxyrhynchus in which a servant urgently asks his master to write at once to him and to their common master about letters sent the previous day, including an enclosed letter of Menas the pulse-dealer. He sends a groom to carry the reply. machine translation
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Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 37473.
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- Business letter HGV-meta OxyrhynchosVI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
†
† παρακαλῶ τὸν ἐμὸν δεσπότην εὐθέως καὶ κατʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν
γράψαι τῷ τε κοινῷ δεσπότῃ καὶ ἐμοὶ τῷ δούλῳ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν
πεμφθέντων ὑμῖν γραμμάτων χθές, ἐπειδὴ πάνυ μεριμνᾷ
ὁ κοινὸς δεσπότης περὶ τούτου. ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν θεὸν εὐθέως
γράψῃ ἡμῖν ὁ ἐμὸς δεσπότης, ἐπειδή, ὡς εἶπον, πάνυ
ὀλιγωρεῖ διὰ τὴν πεμφθεῖσαν ὑμῖν ἔσωθεν τῶν γραμμάτων
ἐπιστολὴν Μηνᾶ τοῦ ὀσπριγίτου. διὰ γὰρ ταύτην τὴν
αἰτίαν ἔπεμψα τὸν παρόντα ἱπποκόμον †.
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[recto]
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† I urge my master immediately, at this very hour, to write both to our common master and to me his servant about the letters sent to you yesterday, since our common master is very anxious about this. But for God's sake let my master write to us immediately, since, as I said, he is very worried on account of the letter of Menas the pulse-dealer which was sent to you inside the letters. For this very reason I have sent the present groom. †
[verso]
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Connections
Found at
Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 37473 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;56;3873 tier-1
- HGV-Text 37473 tier-1
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