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bgu.16.2643 Herakleopolites
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Letter to Athenodoros about an official order and agricultural work. A private letter to Athenodoros, addressed as brother, from the Herakleopolite nome, dated in year 22 of Caesar (Augustus). The writer mentions a stay at Busiris, sends back an official order rolled up with the letter, refers to debtors appealing to the strategos, and asks for help with planting ten arouras and for ropes, iron tools or three spades. machine translation
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- Letter HGV-meta Herakleopolites-8
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Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[FrB]
[…]Ἀθηνοδώρωι τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα
χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν ὡς εὔχομαι·
[…]…[…]…ει συντελέσαι
[…] … αι ὡς μὴ δυνα[…]…λη… δὶς γεγράφηκα
κʼἔστιν …[…]…
ησωμ…[…] πρὸ Σκόλοπος μέλλομεν
ὑστερης … τὸν προστάτην εἶναι·
οὐκ εἴδην ὅτι[…]μαρκης ἐστιν τόπου ὥστε ἐμὲ
μένειν ἐν Βουσίρει ἡμέρας τρεῖς
καὶ μὴ καταλογήν μου ποιεῖσθαι ἀλλὰ ἀπορίψαι μοι τὸ ἐπίσταλμα …[…]…δε μοι δεδωκέναι πλου
τραψεσ[…]…φεν. πέπομφα δέ σοι αὐτὸ
τὸ ἐπίσταλμα τὸ συνηλιγμένον
τῇ ἐπιστολῇ—
ἐπεὶ νῦν παρῃτημένοι τὸν
στρατηγὸν οἱ ὀφείλοντες τὰς μετεπιγραφὰς τὰς ἕως
τῆς ι
τοῦ Μεχείρ· εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις ἐκ παντὸς
τρόπου […]…ήσαντος ἐ…δοῦναι Πετοβάσθι
τῷ ἀποδιδοῦντί σοι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἵνα μὴ
εγδοντον τῶν δέκα ἀρουρῶν γένηται ἡ φυτεία·
ἐπεὶ Σκόλοψ οὐκ
εἴακεν ἡμᾶς ὑπὸ χεῖρα ἐργάζεσθαι ἡ πεφλεγμένη ἡμῶν τῶν ἔργων
[…]κεχώρισται τοῦ βοθυνισμοῦ· καὶ ἐπισ[…]…οτροπίων ἀγορασμός· καὶ περὶ τῶν
σχοινίων μελησάτω σοι καὶ τοῦ σιδήρου ἐὰν
ὦσι ἑτοῖμοι· ἐὰν δὲ μή, ἄλλα τρία σκαφεῖα ἡμεῖν
εὐπόρησον· τὰ δʼ ἄλλα σεαυτοῦ
ἐπιμέλουἵνʼ ὑγιαίνῃς
ὃ δὴ μέγιστον ἡγοῦμαι·
ἔρρωσο· ἔτους κβ Καίσαρος […]…… ιδ
[FrB]
· νῦν ἐστι[…]Translations (1)
[Fragment B]
[…] to his brother Athenodoros, very many greetings and continual good health, as I pray.
[…] to complete […] as not being able […] I have written twice
and it is […]
[…] before Skolops we are about to […] the overseer (?) to be.
I did not know [that] […] is of the place, so that I should stay in Busiris for three days
and not make my enrolment (?) but throw away the written order […] to have given me […]
[…]. I have sent you the order itself, rolled up with the letter,
since now those who owe the transfers of registration up to the 10th of Mecheir have appealed to the strategos. Please, therefore, by every means […] give to Petobastis, who delivers the letter to you, so that the planting of the ten arouras does not become […];
since Skolops has not allowed us to work at hand, the burnt part of our works […] has been separated from the trenching; and […] purchase of […]; and see to the ropes and the iron, if they are ready; if not, provide us with three other spades.
For the rest, take care of yourself so that you stay healthy, which I consider most important.
Farewell. Year 22 of Caesar, […] 14.
[Fragment B]
[…] now it is […]
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- TM-Text 23367 primary
- DDbDP-Text bgu;16;2643 tier-1
- HGV-Text 23367 tier-1
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