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Letter to the assistant Anouthios about an estate, fish and barley TM 35607OxyrhynchosV

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A Christian private letter of the 5th century AD from Oxyrhynchus, addressed to Anouthios, an assistant (boethos). The writer protests that he is not the banker for the gold of a deceased man's estate, urges Anouthios to press the steward Pamouthios about a solidus owed to a nun and about fish, and announces he is sending barley by the courier Job.

In English machine translation

[recto] 643. Do not think that I am the banker of the gold of the estate of the late Anoub[…], for it is the stewards who are receiving you (?) […] on account of the solidus of the nun, and none of them consented to give it. So, as a sensible man, since the steward Pamouthios is coming up the day after tomorrow, demand it from him in person (?) concerning the fish. He did not consent to give Asklas any fish except the oxyrhynchus fish. I am sending the small barley tomorrow by Job the courier. And no one [consented] to give the barley to the girl […] to use. [verso] † Deliver […] to Anouthios, assistant.

The opening χμγ (643) is a Christian isopsephism, a numerical cryptogram for a pious formula. The phrase τονικαλαλων is obscure, and the 'oxyrhynchus' was a fish sacred in the town; a symmachos was a messenger or courier..

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 a βοηθός). 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.16.1931

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

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