Fragmentary Letter about a Sale of Pigs
Fragmentary letter about selling some pigs at the current price
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1811
Fragmentary letter about handing over sacrificial animals at a fair price TM 1811Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)261 BCE – 229 BCE
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Fragment of a letter mentioning Apollonios, asking the recipient to see that sacrificial animals (probably pigs) are handed over to certain people after being valued at a fair current price. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
In English machine translation
[…]
from Apollonios […]
Please, then, take care
that the sacrificial animals are handed over to them,
having assessed them
at the fair price […]
from you at the present time
[…] they sell to you (?)
[…]
[…]
The Greek hiereia means animals for sacrifice; the catalogue identifies them as pigs. The Apollonios named may be the finance minister of Ptolemy II, whose estate was at Philadelphia, but the text does not say so.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragmentary Letter about a Sale of Pigs). 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.col.4.98
[… ? lines lost …] παρʼ Ἀπολλωνίου […] καλῶς οὖν ποιήσεις φροντίσας ὅπως ἂν παραδοθῆι αὐτοῖς τὰ ἱερεῖα, τιμογραφήσας αὐτὰ τῆς καταξίας τιμῆς τῆς παρὰ σοῦ ἐν τῶι νῦν καιρῶι […]…υ…σοι πωλοῦσιν […]ον [… ? lines lost …]