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bgu.21.2902
Brief mit Bitte um Unterstützung via HGV-meta
Letter requesting support in a matter concerning orphans and a loss. Fragmentary letter in which the writer appeals to his masters for help, mentioning a loss he wishes to recover, orphans, and some wrongdoing connected with a stratelates (general), and asks that the matter be brought to completion. It dates to the 6th century AD. machine translation
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TM 997973.
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- Brief mit Bitte um Unterstützung HGV-meta unbekanntVI
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]…[…]…ω…ελθ…[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]…
…ξεσαιτησ…[…]… περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων …[…]… καὶ ἦλθεν
εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα ἀπαιτῶ τοὺς ἐμοὺς καὶ ἀποσώσω αὐτὴν τὴν βλάβην.
τὴν σωτηρίαν οὖν ὑμῶν τῶν δεσποτῶν μου, διὰ τὰ ὀρφανὰ […]… ἀνομία δεσποτικοῦ
τοῦ στρατηλάτου. οἴδατε γὰρ ὅτι γνησίαν δουλείαν ὑπέμειναν. παρακαλῶ δὲ κελεύσατε
ἀποτελέσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα, ἵνα καὶ ἐν τούτῳ εὐχαριστήσω ὑμῖν … ἐμοὶ
τῷ δεσπότῃ μου ὑπὲρ τῆς σωτηρίας τοῦ κοινοῦ δεσπότου, κύριέ μου, δέσποτα. †Translations (1)
[… ? lines lost …]
[…] … […] … came (?) […]
… […] concerning the matters […] and it came
to his ears, so that I may demand back what is mine and recover the damage itself.
By the salvation, then, of you my masters, on account of the orphans […] lawlessness of the master's (?) general (stratelates). For you know that they endured genuine servitude. [I ask you,] order
the matter to be completed, so that in this too I may give thanks to you […] to me
to my master for the salvation of our common master, my lord, master. †
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 997973 primary
- DDbDP-Text bgu;21;2902 tier-1
- HGV-Text 997973 tier-1
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