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Letter from Gemellus to Epagathos about farm tools and work at Apias TM 10785Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)ca. 100

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A letter from the landowner Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his estate manager Epagathos, asking him to send farm tools (forks, winnowing fans and a shovel) to Aphroditopolis, to reap a field at Apias, deal with the sheaves and dig the olive groves. It dates to around AD 100 and belongs to the Gemellus archive from Euhemeria in the Fayum.

In English machine translation

Lucius Bellenus Gemellus to his own Epagathos, greetings. You will do well to send me two three-pronged forks (?) and two winnowing fans and one winnowing shovel, since I am in want of them at Aphroditopolis, and reap the strip of Apias and loosen the sheaves at once at A[…], and dig the olive groves in Apias. If […] the oxen (?) from the […] you will send […]

The word ogmos means a strip or swath of land being reaped; the end of the letter is too damaged to follow, and 'tauriko-' may refer to oxen or to an ox-driven implement.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.fay.120

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ca. 100 · Euhemeria (Arsinoites, Ägypten)

Λούκιος Βελλῆνος Γέμελλος Ἐπαγαθῶι τῶι ἰδίωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις πέμψας μοι θρίνακας δύο καὶ λικμητρίδας δύο καὶ πτύον ἕν , ἐπεὶ κολάζομαι αὐτῶν εἰς Ἀφροδίτην πόλιν, καὶ θέρισον τὸν ὄγμον τῆς Ἀπιάδος καὶ λύσεις εὐθέως εἰς Ἀ…[…] τὰ δράγματα, καὶ τοὺς ἐλαιῶνας τοὺς ἐν τῇ Ἀπιάδι σκ…