Letter [10th year of Tiberius or Claudius]
Letter in which the writer refers to a letter he gave to the recipient in Oxyrhynchus on behalf of another. Also mentions an amount of grain
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 20448
Letter concerning repayment of wheat owed by Dionysios son of Phanias TM 20448Oxyrhynchos24 CE – 51 CE
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Fragment of a letter in which the writer reminds the recipient that he handed him, in Oxyrhynchus, a short letter from Dionysios son of Phanias. That letter asked the recipient to repay the writer the same amount of wheat that Dionysios had received from him. It dates to a 10th regnal year, probably of Tiberius (AD 24-25) or of Claudius.
In English machine translation
[…]
I gave you in Oxyrhynchus a little letter of Dionysios son of Phanias, written on the 14th of the month Kaisareios of the past 10th year, about your giving me the equivalent of what Dionysios himself received from me, 4 1/4 artabas 6 choinikes of wheat.
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Kaisareios is the Roman-period honorific name for the month Mesore. The 10th year may be of Tiberius (AD 23/24) or of Claudius (AD 49/50), hence the date range of AD 24-51 in one record.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter [10th year of Tiberius or Claudius]). 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.oxy.4.789
[… 1 line lost …] ἔδωκά σοι ἐν Ὀξυρύγχ Διονυσίου Φανίου ἐπιστολίδιον κεχαραγμένον εἰς ιδ μηνὸς Καισαρείου τοῦ διελθόντος ι ἔτους περὶ τοῦ σε δοῦναί μοι ἴσας ὧν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Διονύσιος ἔσχεν παρʼ ἐμοῦ πυροῦ ἀρταβῶν δ δ χοινίκων ϛ. [… 2 lines lost …]