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Letter from Markianos to Alexandros asking for a loan of four solidi. A private letter of the 4th century AD from Markianos to Alexandros, whom he calls brother, asking him to lend four gold coins (solidi) to the bearer Hathres, a soldier, and mentioning an appeal to a praepositus. He reproaches Alexandros for never visiting and sends greetings to family and military comrades. machine translation
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Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
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Transcription
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[…] … Μαρκιανὸς
χαίρειν. ἔγραψα διὰ τοῦ ἡμετέρου Ἁθρῆ
πολλὰ τῇ χρηστότητί σου, ὅπως καταξιώσῃς καὶ σὺ δανεῖσαι τέσσαρες χρυσίνους
[…]υτω ἐπίκυνʼ αὐτῷ ἅπαντα καί που
συστρατιώτῃ. ἐκεῖσε παρεκάλεσα τὸν
κύριόν μου τὸν πραιπόσιτον, ἵνα ἐὰν
[…]αν αὐτοῦ ἔχῃς συνελθεῖν σοι ἀπε[…]τα εἴπερ οὔπω ἐδέξω, ἵνα σὺν
[…]ωι καὶ αὐτὸς ὀφείλεις ἐπιδοῦναι
[…]ον. οἶδας γὰρ καὶ ἂν μὴ γράφω, ὅτι
ἀεὶ τὰ μὴ τέρποντα ὑπερτιθῶνται ἀναβαλλόμενοι τὰς ἡμέρας. ἔχων οὖν
τὸ ἀσφαλὲς πάντα ὀφείλεις ποιῆσαι
[…]υ ἀνυσίμου γιγνομένου
[…]χη τῷ Ἁθρῇ τὰ νομισμάτια
καὶ αὐτῷ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς, ὡς καὶ αὐτὸς
συννοεῖς, ὅτι εἰς ὃ ἂν χρείαν μου
ἔχῃς οὐδέπω σου ἠμέλησα. θαυμάζωπῶς καὶ ἂν μίαν πρὸς ἡμᾶς οὔπω ἠξίωσας ἐλθεῖν. προσαγορεύω τὰ
τέκνα σου καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν
[…]ο καὶ Ἀσάειν τὸν συνεπιθέτην
αὐτοῦ καὶ Πετίριν τὸν σύσκηνον αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἡμᾶς ἀγαποῦντάς
τε καὶ τοὺς ἰδίους. ἐρρωμένον σε
ἡ ἀγαθὴ πρόνοια διαφυλάξειεν ἀφθόνως σε καὶ πάντοτε, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε.
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κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ΜαρκιανόςTranslations (1)
[recto]
[…] Markianos [to …], greetings. I have written through our Hathres [many things] to your kindness, so that you too may see fit to lend four gold solidi […] to him, and help him in everything as a fellow soldier (?). There I appealed to my lord the praepositus, so that if […] you have […] of his, to meet with you […] if you have not yet received it, so that with […] you too ought to hand over […]. For you know, even if I do not write it, that people always put off things that are not pleasant, postponing them day by day. So, having security, you ought to do everything […] being effective […] to Hathres the coins, and do not neglect him, as you yourself realize that in whatever you needed me I have never yet neglected you. I wonder how you have not yet seen fit to come to us even once. I greet your children and those of our brother […], and Asaeis his fellow-attacker (?) and Petiris his tent-mate, and all who love us and our own people. May good Providence keep you in health abundantly and always, my lord brother.
[verso]
To my lord brother Alexandros, Markianos.
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