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Letter from Horos to Psasys about a stable for a stud horse TM 1464Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.

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A private letter from Horos to Psasys, from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC. Horos complains of a quarrel with Demetrios over a building used to house a stud horse, and asks Psasys to get Zenon to instruct Artemidoros to provide bricks and a builder for a manger, so that they will not be evicted again when the stallion comes.

In English machine translation

[Fragment 1] Horos to Psasys, greetings. I have had an unpleasant quarrel with Demetrios. For when Artemidoros wrote about the building where the stud was, he said he did not […] [Fragment 2, recto] […] therefore to come himself. See to it, then, that Zenon sends word to Artemidoros that bricks be given and a builder to build a manger, for I hold the building only amid abuse, and so that, if the stud horse arrives, we are not thrown out again. ⟦But they said the boy had come to you. You⟧ […] [Fragment 2, verso] […] to Psasys.

One catalogue description calls this a letter to Zenon, but the text and address name Psasys as recipient, with Zenon mentioned in the body. The text is also published as P.Cair.Zen. 3 59529.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre d’Horos à Psasys). 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.cair.zen.5.59840

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)

[Fr1] Ὧρος Ψασυτι χαίρειν. ἀηδία μοι γέγονεν πρὸς Δημήτριον. Ἀρτεμιδώρου γὰρ γράψαντος περὶ τοῦ οἰκήματος οὗ ἦν ὁ ὀχευτής, οὐκ ἔφη [… ? lines lost …] [Fr2,r] οὖν αὐτὸς παραγίνεσθαι . φρόντισον οὖν ὅπως ἀποστείλῃ Ζήνων Ἀρτεμιδώρωι ὅπως πλίνθος δοθῇ καὶ οἰκοδόμος φάτνην οἰκοδομῆσαι…