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chrest.wilck.57 II v.Chr.Thebais
Letter from Menon to his brother Hermokrates about an undelivered mare. A private letter from Menon to his brother Hermokrates, reporting that a mare which was supposed to reach them via a Jewish man whose name they do not know has not been delivered. He also asks Hermokrates to buy purple dye or wool worth 2 staters each for himself and for Aphrodisia. Written in the Thebaid in the 2nd century BC. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 267.
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- (untitled record) HGV-meta ThebaisII v.Chr.
- p.grenf.1.43 DDbDP-text ThebaisII v.Chr.
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Μένων Ἑρμοκράτει τῷ ἀδελφῶι χαίρειν.
εἰ ἔρρωσαι, ἐρρώμεθα δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ καὶ
Ἀφροδισία καὶ ἡ θυγάτηρ καὶ ἡ παιδίσκη καὶ ἡ
θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς. ἔγραψας ἡμῖν διὰ τὸ […]
κέναι ἡμῖν τὴν ἵππον καὶ παρʼ Ἰουδαίου
[…]σθαι αὐτήν, οὗ τὸ ὄνομα ἀγνοοῦμεν.
αὐτοῦ δὲ μηδʼ ἀποδεδωκότος ἡμῖν μηδὲ ἵππον μηδὲ τὴν πορείαν αὐτῆς ἐπιδεδωκότος, ἐγράψαμέν σοι, ὅπως οὖν εἰδῆις.
ἔρρωσο.
καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις ἀγοράσας ἐμοί τε πορφύρας
στατῆρας δύο καὶ Ἀφροδισίαι δύο .
[v]
Ἑρμοκράτει.Translations (1)
[recto]
Menon to Hermokrates his brother, greetings.
If you are well, we too are well, and also Aphrodisia and the daughter and the slave girl and her daughter. You wrote to us because of the […] to have […] the mare to us and that she […] from a Jew, whose name we do not know.
But since he has neither handed over to us the mare nor given (an account of) her journey, we have written to you so that you may know.
Farewell.
Please, then, buy for me 2 staters of purple, and 2 for Aphrodisia.
[verso]
To Hermokrates.
Connections
Found at
Thebes
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 267 primary
- DDbDP-Text chrest.wilck;;57 tier-1
- HGV-Text 267 tier-1
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