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Menas scholastikos a Athanasios. Contro l'invio di un artigiano a Babylon via HGV-meta
Letter from Menas to the pagarch Athanasios against sending a builder to Babylon. A Byzantine letter from Menas, a lawyer (scholastikos), to Athanasios, illustris and pagarch, in the Hermopolite nome. Menas asks that the letter-carrier, a builder from Sebaemphis working on a cistern, not be sent to Babylon, since otherwise the cistern would remain unbuilt and the land plots would lie neglected. machine translation
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- Menas scholastikos a Athanasios. Contro l'invio di un artigiano a Babylon HGV-meta Hermopolites643
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Transcription
[r]
† ὁ γραμματηφόρος οἰκοδόμος ἐστὶ ἀπὸ Σεβαέμφεως κάμνων εἰς
[…] τὴν δεξαμενὴν […] αὐτὸν θέλουσιν πέμπειν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα […]
[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]…[…]ς παρακληθῇ οὖν ἡ ὑμετέρα περίβλεπτος
γνησία φιλία κελεῦσαι μὴ παρελθεῖν διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐπεὶ ἐὰν κατέρχεται οὐχ εὑρίσκει ποιῆσαι
τὴν αὐτὴν δεξαμενὴν καὶ ἐν ἀφέσει μένουσιν τὰ γῄδια ὅπερ οὐ θέλετε †
[v]
† ἐπίδος τῷ τὰ πάντα περιβλέπτῳ τιμῆς ἀξίῳ γνησίῳ φίλῳ καὶ ἀδελφῷ Ἀθανασίῳ ἰλλουστρίῳ καὶ παγάρχῳ † Μηνᾶς σχολαστικός †Translations (1)
[recto]
† The letter-carrier is a builder from Sebaemphis, working on […] the cistern […] they want to send him to Babylon […] […] So may your esteemed genuine friendship be asked to order that he not be passed over (?) through him, since if he goes down, he will not find (time) to build the same cistern, and the plots of land will remain in neglect, which you do not want. †
[verso]
† Deliver to the in all respects esteemed, honour-worthy, genuine friend and brother Athanasios, illustris and pagarch. † Menas, scholastikos. †
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