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p.oxy.59.3979 Sephtha (Oxyrhynchites)
Business Letter via HGV-meta
Order from Sinpsansneus to his son Leonides to pay 900 drachmas to a poultry-dealer. A letter-order in which Sinpsansneus at the village of Sephtha instructs his son Leonides in the Oxyrhynchite nome to pay 900 drachmas to Aurelius Herakleides, a poultry-dealer, who had already paid the same sum to the writer, so that the money is transferred without being carried. A personal detail about a shipment of 300 linen items serves as an identifying token. machine translation
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TM 19265.
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- Business Letter HGV-meta Sephtha (Oxyrhynchites)267
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Σινψανσνεῦς Λεωνίδῃ τῷ
υἱῷ πολλὰ χαίρειν.
καλῶς ποιήσεις μεταβαλόμενος
παρὰ σοὶ ἐν Ὀξυρυγχίτῃ Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρακλείδῃ υἱῷ Κεφάλωνος ὀρνιθᾶτος συλλαυρίτῃ Λεωνίδου τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ
ἡμῶν ἀργυρίου Σεβαστοῦ
νομίσματος δραχμὰς ἐνακοσίας, ἀνθʼ οὗ ἔσχον τὰς ἴσας
πλήρης δραχμὰς ἐνακοσίας
ἐνθάδε ἐν κώμῃ Σέφθα, ἀλλʼ οὐ
μὴ αὐτὸν κατάσχῃς. σημείου
χάριν ὅτι ἐνεβαλόμην
σοὶ λινᾶ σέμεστα τριακόσια
ὅτε ἐνέβης μετὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ ὀθονιακοῦ. ἡ ἐπιθήκη κυρία καὶ ἐπερωτηθεὶς
ὡμολόγησα.
ἔτους ιδ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Γαλλιηνοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Θὼθ κθ.
[… ? lines lost …]Translations (1)
Sinpsansneus to Leonides his son, many greetings.
Please pay over, there with you in the Oxyrhynchite nome, to Aurelius Herakleides son of Kephalon, poultry-dealer, fellow resident of the same street (?) as Leonides our brother, 900 drachmas of imperial silver coinage, in return for which I have received the same 900 drachmas in full here in the village of Sephtha; and do not detain him. As a token: I loaded on board for you 300 linen semesta when you embarked with Alexander the linen-merchant. The order is valid, and having been asked the formal question I gave my assent.
Year 14 of our lord Gallienus Augustus, Thoth 29.
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 19265 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;59;3979 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19265 tier-1
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