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Letter from Phanias to Harthonis about sacks and errands TM 26518OxyrhynchosII

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A private letter from Phanias to Harthonis at Oxyrhynchus, complaining that a double sack has not arrived with 12 sacks and giving errands: arranging a boundary matter at Nemera, visiting his mother and a doctor about a sealed document, checking on combed wool, and asking the sack-maker near the Sarapeum about the double sack. Dated Hathyr 14, 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

Phanias to his dearest Harthonis, greetings. I blame you greatly on account of the sacks and the double sack. 12 sacks were brought, and up to now the double sack has not yet been brought. So by all means send it through […]. You will tell […] to go down to Nemera on account of the boundary on the 20th, since his plots are being sown. Visit my mother and the house and the doctor and […] the rolled-up diploma; compel the doctor to seal it quickly […] send it at once. And meet my mother and tell her whether the wool of your mother has been combed. If not, you will compel him to comb it. And meet the sack-maker by the side of the Sarapeum and you will ask him whether Phanias' double sack has been made. And you will inform me about all these things. Farewell. Hathyr 14. [verso] To Harthonis, his friend.

A 'double sack' (disakkia) was probably a saddlebag-like sack for a pack animal. The phrase about the doctor and a 'diploma' is damaged, so its exact purpose is uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Phanias to Harthonis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.oxy.51.3642

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Oxyrhynchos

[r] Φανίας Ἁρθώνι τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. μέμφομαί σε λίαν χάριν τῶν σάκκων καὶ τῆς δισακκίας. ιβ ἠνέχθησαν οἱ σάκκοι καὶ μέχρι τούτου οὔπω ἠνέχθη ἡ δισακκία. πάντως οὖν διὰ α[…] λου… πέμψεις. ἐρεῖς […] ρωι καταβῆναι εἰς Νεμέρα χάριν τοῦ ὁρίου τῇ κ, ἐπεὶ σπείρονται οἱ τόποι αὐτοῦ, …