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Letter to Pindaros about a delayed valuation and farm animals TM 31806OxyrhynchosIII

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Letter from […]doros and Sarapammon to Pindaros reporting that Phileas the calf-butcher keeps postponing a joint valuation until the arrival of the esteemed Calpurnius, and asking that the animals be distributed to the farmers so cultivation is not hindered. They also mention sending back Pindaros' donkey and a certain Saras to deal with young peach and citron trees and the vine. The back carries part of an account of payments for parts of a house; Oxyrhynchus, 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[verso] [… 16 lines lost …] 20, for part of a house, 200 drachmas 20, for part of a house, 300 drachmas [recto] […]doros and Sarapammon to Pindaros, greetings. Since for many days we have been waiting persistently on Phileas the calf-butcher so that he might go out with us for the joint valuation, which he has today postponed until the arrival of the most esteemed Calpurnius, we are making this very matter plain to you in person, so that he may distribute the animals to the farmers and there may be no hindrance to the cultivation. We have sent your donkey across to you, and also Saras, so that the small plants of the peaches and citrons and the vine […] [… ? lines lost …]

The verso contains an unrelated account of sums paid for parts of a house. The 'joint valuation' (syntimesis) was presumably an assessment of the animals before their distribution.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Pindarus). 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.14.1764

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

[v] [… 16 lines lost …] κ ὑπὲρ μέρους οἰκίας δραχμὰς σ κ ὑπὲρ μέρους οἰκίας δραχμὰς τ [r] […]δωρος καὶ Σαραπάμμων Πινδάρωι χαίρειν. ἐπεὶ πολλὰς ἡμέρας προσκαρτεροῦμεν Φιλέᾳ τῷ μοσχομαγείρῳ ὅπως συνεξέλθῃ ἡμῖν τῆς συντιμήσεως ἕνεκεν, ἣν ὑπερέθετο σήμερον εἰς τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ ἀξιο…