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bgu.2.546 IV - VIIArsinoites
Letter of the pronoetai to their master about cheeses and flax stalks. A short letter from a group of estate managers (pronoetai) to their master about a requisition of cheeses and flax stalks. They ask him to instruct the secretary to supply them so they can buy the goods, and urge him not to hand them over to the eirenarchs, who give them nothing. It comes from the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 4th to 7th century AD. machine translation
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TM 33265.
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta ArsinoitesIV - VII
Inscriptions (1)
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Transcription
[r]
ἐὰν οἶδεν ἡ σὴ ἐξουσία ὅτι κατέχεις ἡμᾶς τυρία καὶ λινοκαλάμην, γράψον τῷ γραμματεῖ δώσῃ ἡμῖν ὧν χρείαν ἔχεις τυρίων καὶ λινοκαλάμης, ἵνʼ ἀγοράσομεν αὐτά, δέσποτα μὴ δώσῃς αὐτὰ τοῖς εἰρηνάρχαις,
ἐπειδὴ οὐδὲν παρέχουσιν ἡμῖν.
[v]
δεσπότῃ ἡμῶν οἱ σοὶ δοῦλοι παντες οἱ προνοηταί.Translations (1)
[recto]
If your authority knows that you are holding us (liable for?) cheeses and flax stalks, write to the secretary that he should give us the cheeses and flax stalks you need, so that we may buy them. Master, do not give them to the eirenarchs, since they provide us with nothing.
[verso]
To our master, your slaves, all the pronoetai.
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Arsinoite nome
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