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p.oxy.6.929v spätes II - IIIOxyrhynchos

Letter of Nicanor via HGV-meta

Letter from Nikanor to Ninnaros about recovering bundles from a sailor. A private letter from Nikanor to Ninnaros, steward of the strategos Apion, asking him to recover from the sailor Tithoïs six bundles of goods, including one wrapped in a nut-coloured tunic and sealed with white clay, and to have them returned to the Oxyrhynchite nome. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the late 2nd or 3rd century AD. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[v] Νεικάνωρ Νιννάρῳ τῶι ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. εἰδώς σου τὸ σπουδαῖον τὸ πρὸς πάντας καὶ νῦν ἓν τοῦτό μοι ὑπηρετήσεις. καλῶς ποιήσεις ἀπαιτήσας Τιθόιν τὸν ναυτικὸν δύμα καρυΐνου χιτῶνος ἐν ᾧ λίνον καὶ λέντιον τριβακόν, καὶ ἔρια, ταῦτα δὲ πάντα συνενῆν εἰς τὸν χιτῶνα τὸν καρύϊνον καὶ ἐσφραγίσθη γῇ λευκῇ, καὶ σὺν τούτῳ ἄλλα δύματα πάντα, ὡς εἶναι ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀριθμῷ ἕξ , ἀποκαταστῆσαί μοι εἰς Ὀξυρυγχείτην ἐξ ὧν ἔσχον τὰ προκείμενα πάντα. διὸ γράφω σοι, ἀδελφέ, ἵνʼ εἰ ἀλλότριά ἐστιν εἴδῃς, ἐρεῖς δέ μοι ἐν τάχει περὶ τούτου. ἐρρῶσθαι σε εὔχομαι. [r] Νιννάρῳ οἰκονόμῳ Ἀπίωνος στρατηγοῦ παρὰ Νεικάνορος.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[verso] Nikanor to Ninnaros his brother, greetings. Knowing your zeal towards everyone, now too you will do me this one service. Please demand from Tithoïs the sailor a bundle in a nut-coloured tunic, in which there is linen and a worn linen cloth, and wool; all these were put together in the nut-coloured tunic and it was sealed with white clay; and with it all the other bundles, so that there are six in number altogether, (and ask him) to deliver them back to me in the Oxyrhynchite nome, from which I had all the aforementioned things. Therefore I am writing to you, brother, so that you may know whether they are someone else's, and tell me quickly about this. I pray for your health. [recto] To Ninnaros, steward of Apion the strategos, from Nikanor.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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