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cpr.5.19 I - II
Herm... to Serapion via HGV-meta
Letter from Herm... to his patron and foster-father Serapion. A private letter from a man whose name begins Herm... to his patron Serapion, whom he calls his patron and foster-father. He thanks him for remembering him in letters, reports making supplication on his behalf before the Dioskouroi and Serapis, and sends greetings to his household. machine translation
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TM 24981.
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- Herm... to Serapion HGV-meta unbekanntI - II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[r]
Ἑρμ…[…]…[…][…]
καὶ ε[…] χαίρειν
καὶ διὰ παντὸς ἐρρωμένον
διαμένειν ὅλῳ τῷ σώματι
εἰς μακροὺς χρόνους, ἐπεὶ ἡ τύχη σου ἐπέτρεψε ἡμῖν ἵνα σε
προσκυνήσωμεν καὶ ἀσπασώμεθά σε. ὡς καὶ σὺ γὰρ ἡμῶν
ἐμνήσθης παρʼ ἕκαστα κατʼ ἐπιστολήν, οὕτως καὶ ἐγὼ ἐνθάδε
τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ
τοῖς κυρίοις Διοσκόροις καὶ
παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σεράπιδι καὶ
εὔχομαί σοι τὴν σωτηρίαν
τοῦ παντὸς βίου καὶ τὴν ὑγείαν
τῶν τέκνων σου καὶ τοῦ παντὸς οἴκου σου. τὰ δὲ ὅλα ἔρρωσό μοι, ὁ πάτρων μου καὶ τροφεύς. ἄσπασαι τοὺς σοὺς
πάντας καὶ πάσας. ἀσπάζονταί σε
οἱ ἐνθάδε θεοὶ πάντες καὶ
πᾶσαι. ἔρρωσο. Θὼθ ιϛ.
[v]
[…] Σεραπίωνι τῷ κυρίωι.Translations (1)
[recto]
Herm[…] […]
and […] greetings, and that you continue always in good health in your whole body for long years, since your fortune has allowed us to do obeisance to you and to greet you. For just as you remembered us on every occasion by letter, so I too here make your obeisance before the lords Dioskouroi and before the lord Serapis, and I pray for your safety throughout your whole life and for the health of your children and of your whole household. Above all, farewell, my patron and foster-father. Greet all your people, men and women. All the gods here, male and female, greet you. Farewell. Thoth 16.
[verso]
[…] to Serapion, the lord.
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