Letter from Sabinus to Geminus
This letter and P.Fay.122 (to Epagathus) were written by Sabinus, the son of Gemellus. Since Sabinus addresses them both in the same way his relationship was perhaps the same to them both.
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Letter from Sabinus to Geminus about a yoke-strap and a calf hide TM 10786Kasr el BanâtAbout A.D. 100
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A short private letter from Bellenus Sabinus to Geminus asking him to give Vestinus a new, well-greased yoke-strap from a chest he keeps, since Vestinus's strap has been cut, and to collect the hide of a sacrificed calf from the hunchbacked tanner. It comes from Euhemeria in the Fayum, around AD 100.
In English machine translation
Bellenus Sabinus to his own Geminus, greeting.
Please give Vestinus, for his yoke, a new strong yoke-strap, which you will also grease carefully, from those in the chest of the wineskins (?) which you have with you, so that on his way up he may take it away, since his own has been cut. And ask the hunchbacked tanner for the hide of the calf that we sacrificed. Farewell.
Delivered Pauni 6.
The phrase rendered 'chest of the wineskins' (kibotos ton askon) refers to a chest associated with leather skins or bags; its exact use is uncertain. Sabinus, son of Gemellus, also wrote P.Fay. 122, addressing its recipient in the same way ('his own').
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 Sabinus to Geminus). 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.fay.121
Βελλῆνος Σαβῖνος Γεμείνωι τῶι ἰδίωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις δοὺς Οὐηστείνωι εἰς τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτοῦ ζυγόδεσμον καινὸν στερεόν, ὃ καὶ ἀλείψεις ἐπιμελῶς, ἐκ τῶν ἐν τῆι κιβωτῶι τῶν ἀσκῶν ἧι ἔχεις παρὰ σοί, ὅπως ἀνερχόμενος ἀπενέγκῃ αὐτὸ ἐπεὶ τὸ αὐτοῦ κέκοπται. καὶ τὸ δέρμα τοῦ μόσχου οὗ ἐθ…