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p.oxy.59.3998 IVOxyrhynchos

Thonis to Syras and Callinicus via HGV-meta

Letter from Thonis to his daughter Syras and Kallinikos about an undertaking and goods. A Christian private letter from Thonis to his daughter Syras and Kallinikos, written at Oxyrhynchus in the 4th century AD. He explains he was detained and made to sign an undertaking to travel by 20 Phamenoth, but is delayed by a family property dispute after the death of his daughter Theodora's husband, and asks her to collect household goods he has paid for, which he lists. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r,ctr] Θῶνις Συρᾶτι καὶ Καλλινίκῳ τοῖς κυρίοις μου τέκνοις ἐν θεῷ κυρίῳ πλεῖστα χαῖρε. τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιῶ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ. γινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι κατεσχέθην ὑπὸ τῶν Ὀξυρυγχιτῶν καὶ ἐποίησάν με χειρογραφῆσαι μέχρι εἰκάδος Φαμενώθ με κατεισελθεῖν μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου καὶ πάνυ συνέχομαι μὴ δυνασθῶ πρὸς τὴν προθεσμίαν κατεισελθεῖν διότι ἐτελεύτησεν ὁ ἀνὴρ τῆς ἀδελφῆς σου Θεοδώρας καὶ ἐν συζητήσει εἰμὶ μετὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ ἕνεκα τῶν τῆς θυγατρὸς αὐτῆς. καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις, κυρία μου θύγατερ, πολυπραγμονῆσαι τί καὶ ἄλλοι χειρογραφήσαντές τι μέλλουσι πρᾶξαι. ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς. προσδοκῶ γὰρ μέχρι δευτέρας ἀπελθεῖν πρὸς τὴν ἀδελφήν σου. ἐὰν μὲν δυνασθῶ πεῖσαι αὐτούς, εὖ ἂν ἔχοι, ἐὰν δὲ […]…[…]σιν, πᾶν ποιῶ ἐλθεῖν. καὶ γὰρ πρὸ τούτου η…[…]…[…]…προσκυνῆσαι ὑμᾶς. ἔλαβά σου ἐπιστόλιον …[…]…ωνος καὶ ἐχάρην ἀκούσας περὶ τῆς ὁλοκληρίας ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν παιδίων ὑμῶν. δη…[…]σαμ…ει ὅτι, ἔδωκα τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ οὔπω ἔσχον τὰ εἴδη καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις λαβεῖν τὰ εἴδη. οὐ γὰρ ἀπεταξάμην αὐτῶν. οὐ γὰρ οἶδε καὶ αὐτὸς ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεταξάμην ταῦτα περὶ τῶν εἰδῶν …ως θύγατερ οὕτως ………[…]. ἀσπαζ[…]…[…]…[…] σου. ἀσπάζεται σε ἡ ἀδελφή σου […]…ρας. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Εὐλόγις. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Θῶνις. ἄσπαζε Καλλίνικον καὶ Κάλλιππον καὶ Θῶνιν καὶ Δημήτριον καὶ …[…]ν. ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὔχομαι εἰς τὸν …[…]…, κυρία μου θύγατερ. [r,ms] πᾶν ποιῆσῃς λαβοῦσα τὰ εἴδη πάντα. ἔστιν δὲ τὸ κατʼ ἰδέαν· τὸ βασκαύλιον καὶ τὸ κάδιον βαλανείου καὶ ὁ κόκκομας καὶ τὴν κρεμαστὴν λυχνίαν καὶ τὸν ξέστην καὶ τὸν λύχνον ἔχοντα ἀλώπεκα καὶ τὸ πελύκιν καὶ τὰ δύο ἐνώτια σὺν τοῖς πιναρίοις αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ἐπωμίδια δύο καὶ τὴν λίτραν τοῦ σιππείου τρυφεροῦ. [v] … τῇ θυγα …

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto, centre] Thonis to Syras and Kallinikos, my lords, children in the Lord God, very many greetings. I make obeisance for you every day before the Lord God. I want you to know that I was detained by the Oxyrhynchites and they made me sign a written undertaking that I would go down with your brothers by the 20th of Phamenoth, and I am very distressed that I may not be able to go down by the deadline, because the husband of your sister Theodora has died and I am in dispute with his brother over the property of her daughter. So please, my lady daughter, find out what the others who signed undertakings intend to do. But do not neglect it. For I expect to go away by Monday (?) to your sister. If I can persuade them, it would be well; but if […], I am doing everything to come. For indeed before this […] to greet you. I received your little letter […] and I was glad to hear of the good health of you and your children. […] that I gave the money and have not yet received the goods; so please take the goods. For I did not renounce them. For he himself does not know that I did not renounce these things concerning the goods […] daughter, so […]. Greet […] your […]. Your sister […]ra greets you. Eulogis greets you. Apollonios and Thonis greet you. Greet Kallinikos and Kallippos and Thonis and Demetrios and […]. I pray for your health for […], my lady daughter. [recto, margin] Do everything to receive all the goods. They are, item by item: the basket, the little bath bucket and the kettle, and the hanging lamp-stand, and the pint measure, and the lamp with a fox, and the little bowl, and the two earrings with their little plates (?), and the two shoulder pieces, and the pound of fine tow. [verso] […] to the daughter […]

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