Private letter
Letter from Iatrodoros to Dorotheos concerning money matters
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 21565
Letter from Iatrodoros to Dorotheos about a debt and the purchase of solidi TM 21565Fay�mca. 360 A.D.
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A private letter from Iatrodoros to his master Dorotheos about collecting money. Iatrodoros reports that a certain Pinoutis acknowledged owing only six of the twelve units demanded, and that he travelled to Nesso to buy thirty gold solidi, which he will bring when he comes. Written in the Fayum around AD 360.
In English machine translation
[recto]
To my master Dorotheos, Iatrodoros.
Know that I pressed Pinoutis for the money, the twelve units, and he countered: "I owe only six units." And having taken these I went to the trouble of travelling as far as Nesso in order to buy thirty solidi. God willing, whatever hour I come to your nobility, I will have them with me. And so that it may not seem to your nobility to say that I was negligent, I hastened to inform ⟦your nobility⟧ about this the […]
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[I pray for your health for many] years.
[verso]
To my master Dorotheos, Iatrodoros.
The "units" (monades) are probably a large money of account; solidi (holokottinoi) were the gold coins of the late Roman empire. Nesso was a village in the Fayum.
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 Iatrodorus to Dorotheus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Letter from Iatrodorus to Dorotheus
A letter from Iatrodorus to Dorotheus.
p.oslo.3.162
[r] τῷ δεσπότῃ μου Δωροθέῳ Ἰατρόδωρος. γίνωσκέ με ἐπείξαντα Πινοῦτιν τὸ ἀργύριον, τὰς δώδεκα μονάδας, καὶ ἀντεῖπεν ὅτι· οὐ χρεωστῶ εἰ μὴ ἓξ μονάδας. καὶ αὐτὰς λαβὼν ἐσκύλην ἕως Νήσσω ἵνα ἀγοράσω τριάκοντα ὁλοκοττίνους. σὺν θεῷ οἵαν ἂν ὥραν ἀπαντῶ πρὸς τὴν εὐγένειάν σου ἔχων αὐτού…