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Letter from Heras to his father Papontos about an assault by Sabina TM 30073OxyrhynchosIII

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A private letter from Heras to his father Papontos, sending their man Harpokras to collect letters and reporting that he had been detained and made to swear an oath by a 'friend'. He also tells how Sabina struck Syra with the key of the exedra, leaving her bedridden, and then disappeared, reportedly to the Herakleopolite nome. Written at Oxyrhynchus in the 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Heras to Papontos, his father, greeting. I have sent you our Harpokras so that he may receive from my brother letters about the epithekai (?) […], since I was detained by Ker[…]os, the friend, and he forced me to swear to him that within the 20th it would be handed over (?) to him, with much insolence. […] Harpokras […] […] and I found that Sabina had struck Syra, and I asked her how she was struck, and I learned from everyone that because Sabina was not just now allowed what she had inside, she struck her with the key of the exedra which she was holding, and to this very day she is bedridden. Sabina has been missing since the tenth, and I have heard that she is in the Herakleopolite nome. Harpokras will tell you what he heard in the city, the things she did. I pray for your health. Phaophi 14. [margin] But see that you do not detain Harpokras, because of the urgency about the epithekai. [verso] […] to Papontos, his father, from Heras.

The meaning of 'epithekai' (perhaps additional items or supplements) is uncertain. An 'exedra' is a recess or side room of a house.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Heras to Papontos). 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.51.3644

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

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