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bgu.2.665 IArsinoites
Letter from a son to his father about a woman's childbirth and reconciliation. Private letter from a son to his father, asking him to travel with a pregnant woman in late Mecheir or mid-Phamenoth so she can give birth where the writer is, and mentioning a reconciliation, the father's pay and a man occupied with the arabarchy. It closes with greetings and a postscript; it dates to the 1st century AD from the Arsinoite nome. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
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[2]
[…]της μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων περὶ αὐτῆς λέγων ὅτι
ἰδοὺ ἐπληροφόρησα αὐτὸν καὶ ἦρκε αὐτὴν ἄνω
ἐτηγανίζετο ἀναβῆναι, ὅπως σε παρακαλέσῃ
εὐλαβεῖν αὐτὴν, εὐκαιρίαν δὲ οὐκ ἔχει ἀπέσχηκε γὰρ ἡ ἀραβαρχία καὶ μέλλει ἐκπλέκειν τὰ
καταλειφθέντα αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἔμελλε
πέμπειν εὔπλουν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἵνα σε
παρακαλέσῃ ἐπεὶ αὐτὸς ἀσχολεῖται. εἶπον δὲ αὐτῷ
ἐγὼ τῷ πατρί μου γράψω τὸ μὲν πρῶτον περὶ τοῦ τοκετοῦ αὐτῆς τὸ ἀνανκαιότερον, εἶτα καὶ
περὶ τῆς διαλλαγῆς. διὸ παρακαλῶ σε, πάτερ, τὸ
μὲν πρῶτον ἐμβῆναι σὺν αὐτῇ τὰ περιέσχατα τοῦ Μεχεὶρ ἢ τὰ μέσα τοῦ Φαμενώθ, ἵνα
ᾧδε καταφθάσῃ τεκεῖν τὸ ἀνανκαῖον καὶ
διὰ τὸ σὸν ὀψώνιον, ἐνετείλατο γὰρ Θέων παραλέγων ὅτι πρώτιστα λαμβάνει, καὶ ἀνάγκη ἐστὶν
αὐτὸν παρεῖναι. ἡτοιμάσθη αὐτῇ πάντα πρὸς
τὴν λοχείαν αὐτάρκως, ἐρωτῶσι δὲ καὶ, κύριε
ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ, ὅπως ἀποκυήσῃ καὶ ε…
…σε παρακαλῶ, πάτερ, ὅπως ἐξ αὐτῆς αὐτὴν ε[…]…
[…] μικρὸς παρ…γω…ιω καὶ ἡ πρεσβυτέρα ἡ τοῦ
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Ἡρακλ[…]…[…]…[…]
καὶ οὐκ […]φθ[…]ηκους[…]
καὶ πο…αι…ητα ε[…]
τησε…[…] καὶ ἔρχεται. ἄσπασαι Κορνηλίαν καὶ Σευῆρον
καὶ Εἰσίωνα καὶ Σωτήριχον
καὶ Διόσκορον. ἐρρῶσθαί
σε εὔχομαι, ὦ πάτερ.
ἔτους ιγ Τῦβι κ.
ἀηδῶς δὲ ἔσχον περὶ
τοῦ ἵππου. μὴ δόξῃς
ἀμελεῖν με τοῦ γράφειν
σοι οὐκ ἔχομεν διὰ τίνος
πέμπωμεν.Translations (1)
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[…]
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[…] with her own people concerning her, saying: "See, I have satisfied him and he has taken her up-country (?)." She was eager (?) to come up, so that she might ask you to take her in, but she has no opportunity, for the arabarchy has kept him occupied and he is about to settle the affairs left to him; so far he was intending to send his brother with a good voyage, so that he might ask you, since he himself is busy. And I said to him: "I will write to my father, first about her childbirth, the more pressing matter, and then also about the reconciliation." Therefore I ask you, father, first to embark with her at the very end of Mecheir or in the middle of Phamenoth, so that she may arrive here in time to give birth, which is necessary, and also because of your pay; for Theon gave instructions, saying that he receives it first of all, and it is necessary for him to be present. Everything has been prepared for her sufficiently for the delivery, and they also ask, lord, his mother, that she may give birth [deleted] and […] I ask you, father, that from her […] the little one […] and the elder one, the one of
[column 3]
Herakl[…] […]
and not […]
and […]
[…] and he is coming. Greet Cornelia and Severus and Ision and Soterichos and Dioskoros. I pray for your health, father.
Year 13, Tybi 20.
I was displeased about the horse. Do not think that I neglect writing to you; we have no one by whom to send.
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Arsinoite nome
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