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Letter of Gemellus with instructions on farm work and festival gifts TM 10783Euhemeria (Arsinoites)6. Nov. 110

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Part of a letter from the landowner Gemellus to a family member or agent, giving farming instructions: watering an olive grove at Dionysias, buying birds and customary gifts for officials at the Isis festival, and sending animals and men with sacks. It was written on 6 November AD 110 in the Arsinoite nome (Euhemeria).

In English machine translation

[… 9 lines lost …] … go to Dionysias to Psiathas the sower until you water the olive grove there, and buy for us, for sending at the Isis festival, the gifts we are accustomed to send, especially to the strategoi. Two days beforehand buy the birds for the festival and you will send them, and you will send the rest (of the men) to the city with the sacks, since the animals are going to carry manure to Psennophris, with … (?) and small sieves (?) as for wood-cutting. I am sowing 6 arouras at Psennophris. If the animals go up, load them with cabbage (?) and wood. Do not do otherwise. Stay there until you water the seven-aroura plot of the olive grove. Greet all who truly love you. Farewell. Year 14 of Trajan Caesar the lord, Hathyr 10.

The beginning, with the sender and addressee, is lost; the attribution to Gemellus comes from the catalogue records. Words such as βελενκώθια and σηστρίδια are rare and their meaning is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Gemellus). 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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p.fay.118

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 6. Nov. 110 · Euhemeria (Arsinoites)

[… 9 lines lost …] … πορεύου εἰς Διονυσιάδα πρὸς τὸν Ψιαθᾶν τὸν κατασπορέα ἕως τὸν ἐκεῖ ἐλαιῶνα ποτίσῃς, καὶ ἀγόρασον ἡμῖν εἰς ἀποστολὴν τοῖς Ἰσίοις οἷς ἔχομεν συνήθειαν πέμπειν, μάλιστα τοῖς στρατηγοῖς. πρὸ δύο ἡμερῶν ἀγόρασον τὰ ὀρνιθάρια τῆς ἑορτῆς καὶ πέμψεις αὐτὰ καὶ τοὺς λο…