Order about the delivery of a slave to her owner
An order to deliver a Carian slave called Sappho, who was being sent down the river in a royal galley, into the custody of her owner Philammon, belonging to the troop of Nikophilos.
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Order to release a Carian slave girl to her owner Philammon TM 1017Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)Year 16
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A brief order to release a Carian slave girl, arriving by the royal twenty-oared ship, to her owner Philammon, a Thessalian soldier of the troop of Nikophilos, who is described with physical features for identification. It dates to a Year 16 with an intercalary month Panemos, probably from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
Year 16, intercalary Panemos.
Release from the downstream voyage, in the royal twenty-oared ship, to Philammon, Thessalian, of the troop of Nikophilos, mercenary captain (?), a split-reed (?) ... reddish-haired, curly (?), having a scar on the left cheek, about 40 years old, his slave girl Sappho (?), a Carian.
Several words of the description (schizian, klaston) are obscure and the translation of them is tentative; xenagos may describe Philammon as a mercenary officer. The date of 207-206 BC sits oddly with the Zenon archive, which mostly belongs to the mid-3rd century BC.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order about the delivery of a slave to her owner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.3.59374
ἔτους ιϛ, Πανήμου ἐμβολίμου. ἄφες ἐκ καταπλοῦ ἐν βασιλικῆι εἰκοσόρωι εἰς Φιλάμμονα Θεσσαλὸν τῶν Νικοφίλου ξεναγὸν σχιζίαν πυρράκη κλαστὸν οὐλὴν ἔχοντα ἐπʼ ἀριστερᾶι σιαγόνι ὡς ἐτῶν μ παιδίσκην αὐτοῦ Σαφφοῦν Καρίνην.