One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 32143
Note from Philoxenos to the wine-seller Tesenouphis about payment for wine TM 32143Ptolemais Euergetis (?) (Arsinoites)Anfang III
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A short note from Philoxenos to Tesenouphis, a wine-seller at Philadelphia, telling him that a slave boy has been sent to collect money owed for wine and that the cash should be ready when Philoxenos passes by. It dates to the early 3rd century AD and comes from the Arsinoite nome, perhaps Ptolemais Euergetis.
In English machine translation
From Philoxenos.
I have sent a slave boy to you, so that he may collect the wine dues (?). So get the money ready at once, so that when I pass by I may find it waiting for me.
To Tesenouphis, wine-seller of Philadelphia.
The term oinika may mean either payments due for wine or a wine-related levy. The last line is the address naming the recipient.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Communication relative à un paiement pour du vin). 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.gen.1.2ed.72
παρὰ Φιλοξένου. ἔπεμψα πρός σὲ παιδίον, ἵνα ἀπαιτῇ τὰ οἰνικά. εὐθέως οὖν ἀργύριον ἑτοίμασον ἵνα παρερχόμενος εὕρω πρὸ ἐμοῦ. Τεσενούφι οἰνοπώλῃ Φιλαδελφίας.