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bgu.16.2647 21. März 8 v.Chr.Herakleopolites

Letter via HGV-meta

Letter recommending Hieronikes after losses in a shipwreck. A private letter asking a 'brother' to have his people receive and not turn away a man named Hieronikes, who is travelling after a dispute over goods lost in a shipwreck, mentioning a place at Busiris. It is dated to 21 March 8 BC, in the reign of Augustus, from the Herakleopolite nome. machine translation

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  • Letter HGV-meta Herakleopolites21. März 8 v.Chr.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] [… ? lines lost …] α…[…] πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς ὑγιαίνειν· δεόντως Ἱερονίκης εἰς τοσαγάλην πορεύεται διὰ τὸ μέμψασθαι αὐτῷ ἃ ἀπώλεσε ἐν τῆι ναυαγίᾳ· εὖ οὖν ποιήσεις, ἀδελφέ, γράψας τοῖς σοῖς ἵνα αὐτὸν εἰσδέξωνται, καὶ μὴ ἀπορίψῃς· ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃς τόπον ἐν τῷ σου α…ῳ ἐν Βουσίρει γράψον μόνον ὡς οὐ μὴ ἀπορίψῃς ε… ἄλλα τεύξεται ὑπ[…] πρὸ δὲ πάντων σεαυτοῦ ἐπιμέλου ἵνα ὑγιαίνῃς· ἔρρωσο ἔτους κβ ΚαίσαροςΦαμενὼθ κε [v] Πλα απι Ἀθᾶι …[…]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] [… lines lost …] […] many greetings and continual good health. Hieronikes is rightly going to the tosagale (?) because he blamed him for what he lost in the shipwreck. So please, brother, write to your people that they receive him, and do not throw him out. If you do not have room in your […] at Busiris, just write that you will not throw him out […] other things he will obtain from […]. Above all take care of yourself so that you stay healthy. Farewell. Year 22 of Caesar, Phamenoth 25. [verso] […] to Athas […]

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Found at Herakleopolites

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