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bgu.3.827 II - IIIPelusion

Letter from Zoe to her brother Apollinarios at Pelusion. A private letter from a woman named Zoe to her brother Apollinarios, written at Pelusion, about delivering written items to the wife of Acharis, recovering her own property and money owed through the epistrategos, and asking him to look after her house. She complains this is her third letter and says she is ill; the address mentions a camel-rider, Petronius. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[r] Ζοὴ Ἀπολλιναρίῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημά σου παρὰ τῷ Δὶ τῷ Κασίῳ. γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω, ὅτι εὕρηκα τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Ἄχαρις καὶ δέδωκα αὐτῇ τὰ γεγραμμένα πάντα καὶ ἐγὼ προσδέχομαι τὰ ἐμαυτῆς λαβεῖν καὶ ἐξελθεῖν καὶ τὰ μετέωρα Γεμέλου, ἵνα ἀπαιτήσω εὕρηκα μετὰ κυρίoυ, ἀλλὰ λέγουσι, ὅτι αμαδ… διὰ τοῦ ἐπιστρατήγου ὅτι …ελίαν δύνη …… παρὰ τοῦ ἐπιστρατήγου καὶ γράψαι μοι μετὰ κυρίου τὸ ἀργύριον κεῖται οὔπω οὐδέν. ἐὰν ἴδω, ὅτι οὐδὲν γέγονε, ἐξέρχομαι. ἰδοῦ δὴ τρίτην ἐπιστολὴν σοι γράφω. ἔπεχε τῇ οἰκίᾳ μου, ἐκτίνασσε τὰ ἔρια καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια. ἀφωσιώκατε Πηλούσιον. ἀσθενῶ. ἀσπάζεταί σε Σερῆνος, ἀσπάζεταί σε Πετρώνις καὶ ἡ ἀδελφὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἑρμιόνη, ἀσπάζου Χαριτοῦν καὶ τὴν γάμβραν αὐτῆς. ἔρρωσο. Φαῶφι ιδ [v] ἀπόδος Ἀπολλιναρίῳ ἀπὸ Πετρωνίου δρομεδαρίου ἀπὸ Πηλουσίου

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[recto] Zoe to Apollinarios her brother, greetings. I make obeisance for you before Zeus Kasios. I want you to know that I have found the wife of Acharis and have given her everything that was written, and I am waiting to receive my own things and to leave, and also the arrears (?) of Gemellus, so that I may demand them. I have found (them?) with a guardian, but they say that […] through the epistrategos that […] you can […] from the epistrategos and write to me with a guardian. The money is lying there, nothing yet. If I see that nothing has happened, I am leaving. Look, this is now the third letter I am writing to you. Look after my house, shake out the wool and the cloaks. You have all abandoned (?) Pelusion. I am ill. Serenus greets you, Petronis greets you and his sister and Hermione. Greet Charitous and her sister-in-law. Farewell. Phaophi 14. [verso] Deliver to Apollinarios from Petronius, dromedarius, from Pelusion.

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