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p.oxy.59.4000 IVOxyrhynchos
Apion to Ammonianus via HGV-meta
Letter from Apion to his father Ammonianos about payments and overdue money. A private letter from Apion to his father Ammonianos, who was apparently in Alexandria, asking him to make several payments in solidi and myriads of denarii to a man named Horigas and complaining that the rest of the money and goods had not been sent. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from Oxyrhynchus. machine translation
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TM 33121.
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- Apion to Ammonianus HGV-meta OxyrhynchosIV
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
κυρίῳ μου πατρὶ Ἀμμωνιανῷ
Ἀπίων χαίρειν.
τῇ θείᾳ προνοίᾳ εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ εὐθυμοῦντα ἀπολαβεῖν τὰ παρʼ ἐμοῦ γράμματα.
σπούδασον, κύριέ μου πάτερ, δοῦναι Ὡριγᾶτι
εἰς λόγον τη…… μυριάδα μυριάδων
μίαν καὶ μυριάδας δισχιλίας , καὶ εἰς
λόγον τοῦ μεγάλου ἄξονος νομισμάτιον α
μυριάδας Βτπ καὶ ποίησον Χοῶν τὸν βοηθὸν
Ἡρακλείου παρασχεῖν τῷ αὐτῷ Ὡριγᾶτι
εἰς λόγον τῶν πορφυρῶν νομισμάτια β, μυριάδας …ψπ.
καὶ περὶ Μαξεντίου κατέσχον τὸ ναῦλον
αὐτοῦ ε……[…]…φασι…… καὶ ἀντέστη ὅτι, ἤδη……δέδωκα αὐτῷ
καὶ ἤδη ἐξέπλεξα μετʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὕτως
ἐπλήρωσα αὐτόν. καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐπιμελείας
θαυμάζομεν ὑμᾶς πῶς ἀφεῖτε ἡμᾶς,
καθήμενοι ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας,
μηδὲν ποιοῦντες, μηδὲ ἀποστέλλοντες
τὴν λοιπάδα τῶν ἀργυρίων ὧν ἐχειρογραφήσατε κα, ὡς, εἰ ἀποστέλλετε τὴν
λοιπάδα, ἐν τάχει ἀποστείλατε εἰ δὲ μή,
γράψατε ἡμῖν. τὴν λοιπάδα δὲ τῶν
ἀκανθίνων ἀποστείλατε ἐν ψιαθίοις
δύο . καὶ περὶ τῶν δύο ἀρταβῶν τῶν
κολλουρίων ὧν ἔγραψά σοι τοῦ Σερήνου
τοῦ ἑκατοντάρχου ἀποστείλατε. ἄσπασον τοῦς ἡμῶν
πάντας κατʼ ὄνομα. ἐρρῶσθαι εὔχομαι
πολλοῖς χρόνοις.Translations (1)
To my lord father Ammonianos, Apion, greetings.
By divine providence I pray that you are in health and in good spirits as you receive my letter.
Make haste, my lord father, to give to Horigas on account of the […] one myriad of myriads and 2,000 myriads, and on account of the great axle 1 solidus, 2,380 myriads; and have Choous, the assistant of Herakleios, provide to the same Horigas on account of the purple goods 2 solidi, […]780 myriads. And concerning Maxentios, I withheld his freight charge […] they say (?) […] and he objected that I had already […] paid him and had already settled accounts with him, and so I paid him in full. And concerning the supervision, we are amazed at you, how you neglect us, sitting in Alexandria, doing nothing and not sending the remainder of the money for which you signed a receipt, 21 (?); so, if you are sending the remainder, send it quickly; if not, write to us. Send the remainder of the acacia-wood (?) items in two mats. And concerning the two artabas of rolls (kollouria) of Serenos the centurion, which I wrote to you about, send them. Greet all our people by name. I pray for your health for many years.
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Oxyrhynchus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 33121 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.oxy;59;4000 tier-1
- HGV-Text 33121 tier-1
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