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bgu.20.2871 1. Sept. 85Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites) (?)

Letter of Harpaesis to Heracles via HGV-meta

Letter from Harpaesis to his brother Herakles about the Charmosyna festival. A private letter from Harpaesis to his brother Herakles, urging him to sail upriver, gods willing, for the festival of the Charmosyna and mentioning his wife and children. It is dated 1 September AD 85, probably from Soknopaiou Nesos in the Fayum. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ἁρπαῆσις Ἡρακλήωι τῶι ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν. γινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι εἰ ἀναπέπλευκας […] οις ἡ γυνή σου ἑτοίμη ἦν. ὅτι τοιαῦ[…] οὐκ ἀναπλέω, οὕτως δὲ εἴρηκαν …[…] ὥστε ἀφεῖναι ἕως τῶν Χαρμοσύνων εα[…] μὴ πεποίηκαν μὴ ἵνα κενῶς αὐτοὺς μεμ…[…]…[…]. διὸ γράφω σοι ἵνα θεῶν θελόντων ἀναπλεύσῃς εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν τῶν Χαρμοσύνων. ἀσπάζ… παιδία. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους ε Αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Δομιτιανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ Γερμανικοῦ μηνὸς Σεβαστοῦ δ [v] Ἡρακλήωι

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Harpaesis to Herakles his brother, greetings. I want you to know that if you have sailed up […] your wife was ready. Because such […] I am not sailing up, and so they have said […] so as to let (it) go until the Charmosyna […] they have not done, not so that in vain […] them […]. Therefore I am writing to you so that, the gods willing, you may sail up for the festival of the Charmosyna. Greet (?) […] the children. Farewell. Year 5 of Imperator Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, month of Sebastos, day 4. [verso] To Herakles.

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Found at Soknopaiu Nesos (Arsinoites)

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