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bgu.16.2649 Herakleopolites
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Private letter with greetings and a request for small loaves. A private letter, its sender's and recipient's names lost, sent by a kydaros-boat sailing upriver, with greetings to family members including Soterichos, Tryphas, Herakleios and Mikkos. A postscript asks that some small loaves be sent on the boat. It is dated Hathyr 2 of year 25 of Caesar (Augustus), from the Herakleopolite nome. machine translation
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TM 23373.
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- Letter HGV-meta Herakleopolites-6
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…] πλεῖστα χαίρειν καὶ διὰ παντὸς
ἐρρωμένωι ἄριστα ἐπανάγειν ὡς εὔχομαι·
[…]κυδάρου ἀναπλέοντος ἀναγκαῖον
ἡγησάμην σε διʼ αὐτοῦ ἀσπάσασθαι·
ἀσπάζου
[…]Σωτήριχον τὸν ἀδελφὸν καὶ Τρυφᾶν
[…] καὶ Ἡράκλειον τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὰ
παιδάρια[…]ν καὶ τὸν Μικκὸν καὶ τοὺς
ἐν οἴκωι πάντας· πρὸ τῶν ὅλων δέομαι τοῦ σώματος
[…]ἐπιμέλειαν ποιεῖσθαι ἵνʼ
ὑγιαίνῃς·
[…] ἐρρωσο ἔτους κε
Καίσαρος Ἁθὺρ β
[…]ενι πέμψεις μοι ἐν τῶι κυδάρωι
[…]…ως οὐκ ἐμβεβλημέν[…]…ηι ὀλίγα ἀρτίδια
διὸ ἐρωτηθεὶς μὴ ληρήσῃς ε·
[…]πέμψον τὰ ἀρτίδια ἐν τῶι κυδάρωι
[…]ἀναπλεῖ.Translations (1)
[…] very many greetings and that you may continue always [in the best of health], as I pray.
Since the kydaros-boat [of …] is sailing up, I [thought it] necessary to greet you by means of it.
Greet […] Soterichos my brother and Tryphas […] and Herakleios my father and the [children] […] and Mikkos and [all those in the house]. Above all I ask you to take care of your health so that you may stay well.
[…] Farewell. Year 25 of Caesar, Hathyr 2.
[…] you will send me in the kydaros-boat […] not loaded (?) […] a few small loaves; [therefore, please,] do not talk nonsense (?) […] send the small loaves in the kydaros-boat […] sails up.
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Herakleopolites
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 23373 primary
- DDbDP-Text bgu;16;2649 tier-1
- HGV-Text 23373 tier-1
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