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bgu.3.885 Arsinoites
Letter from Theoktistos to Apollonios about grazing sheep and tunics. A private or business letter from Theoktistos to Apollonios from the Arsinoite nome. He asks Apollonios to send someone or something to be guarded, to find out who owns the sheep that have grazed on land there, and to check with the weaver Orsenouphis whether some tunics are ready and send them up. machine translation
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TM 9398.
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta Arsinoites75
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Θεόκτιστος Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν.
περὶ πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν.
πέμψον …[…]…κι…ν εἰς …[…]…[…]…
ἵνα αὐτὸν φυλάσσῃ ὡς ἔγραψας καὶ μελησάτω σοι ἐπιγνῶναι, τίνος ἐστὶν τὰ
πρόβατα τὰ κατανενεμηκότα τὰ ἐκεῖ
ἵνα τὰ ὀνόματα μὴ πέμψῃς καὶ περὶ
τῶν χιτώνων μελησάτω σοι ἐπιγνῶναι παρὰ Ὀρσενούφως τοῦ γερδίου, εἰ γεγόνασι καὶ πέμψον αὐτοὺς ἄνω
… β[…]Translations (1)
Theoktistos to his dearest Apollonios, greetings.
Above all I pray that you are in good health.
Send […] to […]
so that he may guard it as you wrote, and take care to find out whose are the sheep that have grazed down the [crops?] there,
so that you do not send the names. And concerning
the tunics, take care to find out from Orsenouphis the weaver whether they are finished, and send them up.
[…]
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Arsinoite nome
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