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bgu.3.846 IIArsinoites
Letter from the penitent Antonius Longus to his mother Nilous. A private letter from Antonius Longus to his mother Nilous, in which he confesses his wrongdoing, describes his destitute state ('I am naked'), and begs her to be reconciled with him. It was written in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum) in the 2nd century AD, with mention of Karanis and the nome capital. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
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Transcription
[r]
Ἀντῶνις Λόνγος Νειλοῦτι
τῇ μητρὶ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. καὶ διὰ πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ κατʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν παρὰ τῷ
κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι. γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω, ὅτι οὐχ ἤλπιζον, ὅτι ἀναβαίνεις εἰς τὴν μητρόπολιν, χάριν τούτου οὐδʼ ἐγὼ εἰσῆλθα εἰς τὴν πόλιν. …[…]…οπ[…]μην δὲ ἐλθεῖν εἰς Καρανίδα
ὅτι σαπρῶς περιπατῶ. ἔγραψά σοι, ὅτι γυμνός
εἰμι. παρακαλῶ σε, μήτηρ, διαλλάγητί μοι. λοιπὸν οἶδα τί ἐμαυτῷ παρέσχημαι, πεπαίδευμαι καθʼ ὃν δὴ τρόπον, οἶδα ὅτι ἡμάρτηκα.
ἤκουσα παρὰ τοῦ[…]ου μου τὸν εὑρόντα σε
ἐν τῷ Ἀρσαινοείτῃ καὶ ἀκεραίως πάντα σοι διήγηται. οὐκ οἶδες, ὅτι θέλω πηρὸς γενέσθαι
ἢ γνῶναι ὅπως ἀνθρώπωι, ἔτι ὀφείλω ὄβολον
[…]ο[…] σὺ αὐτὴ ἐλθέ …
[…]χανκ[…]ον ἤκουσα ὅτι υ
[…]…λησαι[…] παρακαλῶ σε
[…]…ε…α[…]κ ἐγὼ σχεδὸν
[…]ω παρακαλῶ σε
[…]ώνου θέλω ἐγὼ
[…]σει…… οὐκ ε…
[…] μὴ ἄλλως ποιήσῃς […]
[… ? lines lost …]
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μητρὶ ἀπὸ Ἀντωνίου Λόνγου υἱοῦ.Translations (1)
[recto]
Antonis Longus to Nilous his mother, very many greetings. And above all I pray that you are well. I make your obeisance every day before the lord Sarapis. I want you to know that I did not expect that you were going up to the metropolis; for this reason I did not come into the city either. […] to come to Karanis, because I am going about in a wretched state. I wrote to you that I am naked. I beg you, mother, be reconciled to me. For the rest, I know what I have brought upon myself. I have been punished (?) in a fitting way. I know that I have sinned. I heard from […] who found you in the Arsinoite nome, and he has told you everything accurately. Do you not know that I would rather be maimed than know that I still owe a man an obol […] you yourself come […] I heard that […] I beg you […] I nearly […] I beg you […] I want […] not […] do not do otherwise […]
[…]
[verso]
To his mother, from Antonius Longus, her son.
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