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Letter from Gemellus to Epagathos ordering salted fish and olives TM 10781Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)2. Dez. 104

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A private letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his estate manager Epagathos, asking him to salt and send 30 fish and an artaba of olives to the city, as Gemellus plans to travel there before mid-Choiak. Written at Euhemeria in the Arsinoite nome on 2 December AD 104.

In English machine translation

Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his own Epagathos, greetings. Please look out for 30 phagroi or 30 korakinoi and, after salting them, send them to me in the city; and make 40 fine […], since I intend to go to the city on account of the little one and on account of that pending matter, by the fifteenth of the present month Choiak. And if you can send an artaba of olives […] send it, so that we may send it to our brother. Do not do otherwise. If I get away, I will send to you so that I may greet you. Farewell. Year 8 of Trajan Caesar the lord, Choiak 6.

Phagroi and korakinoi are Nile fish (sea bream and a perch-like fish) with no exact English names. The object of the 40 items to be made is lost; 'the city' probably means the nome capital Arsinoe.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Gemellus to Epagathus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Dez. 104 · Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Λούκιος Βελλῆνος Γέμελλος Ἐπαγαθῶι τῶι ἰδίῳ χαίρειν. εὖ οὖν ποιήσας σκέψῃ φάγρους τριάκοντα ἢ κορακίνους τριάκοντα καὶ ταριχεύσας πέμψεις μοι εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ ποίησον […]τας καλοὺς τεσσαράκοντα , ἐπεὶ βουλεύομαι εἰς πόλιν ἀπελθεῖν χάριν τοῦ μικροῦ καὶ χάριν ἐκείνου τοῦ μετεώρου …