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bgu.16.2634 ca. 21 v.Chr. - 5Herakleopolites, Ägypten
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Letters to Seleukos and to the brothers Euomenos and Dionysios about consignments of birds and fleeces. A draft or copy of two short messages from the Herakleopolite nome, around 21 BC to AD 5. The first tells Seleukos that the writer has sent him through Hermas a large consignment of geese, cranes, fish, goose eggs and chickens; the second tells the brothers Euomenos and Dionysios that fleeces have been sent, wants 30 more, and mentions sick sheep and shearing. machine translation
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- Letter HGV-meta Herakleopolites, Ägyptenca. 21 v.Chr. - 5
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Σελεύκωι
πέπομφά σοι διʼ Ἑρμᾶτος λευκομετώπους πεντήκοντα, γεράνους δέκα ἀβραμίδων κεράμια πέντε, κορακίνους
ἡμινήρους …φε…
κοντα, ὠιὰ χήνεια πεντήκοντα,
ὀρνίθια διακόσια.
Εὐομένῳ καὶ Διονυσίωι τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς·
[…]πέπομφα διʼ Ἑρμᾶτος τοὺς Φιλέρωτος
[…]ους πόκους πεντήκοντα […]
[…]ους πεντήκοντα καὶ …[…]
[…] εἴκοσι, πάντας δὲ καλούς.
[…]εν οὖν ἤθελον ἔτι τριάκοντα
[…] διασαφῆναιἐπὶ τῶν προβάτων
[…] ἀσθενεῖν τὰ θρέμματα ἵνʼ
[…]κατὰ τὴν δύναμιν τὰ ἐρίδια
[…]…γηδυμωνο[…]…τυχια κείρας.Translations (1)
To Seleukos.
⟦Expecting you from one day to the next⟧
I have sent you through Hermas 50 white-fronted geese, 10 cranes, 5 jars of abramis fish, [...] korakinos fish half-salted (?) […], 50 goose eggs, 200 chickens.
To Euomenos and Dionysios, the brothers:
[…] I have sent through Hermas the […] of Phileros, 50 fleeces […] 50 and […] 20, all of them good.
[…] so I wanted 30 more […] to make clear [about the sheep] […] that the animals are sick, so that […] according to the ability the wool […] having shorn […].
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- TM-Text 23358 primary
- DDbDP-Text bgu;16;2634 tier-1
- HGV-Text 23358 tier-1
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