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Letter from Sabinos to the deacon Kornelios about oil jars and errands TM 36108Ankyron ? (Herakleopolites)VI

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A Christian letter from Sabinos to the deacon Kornelios, reporting a shipment of jars of oil, asking for an account, instructing him to distribute some jars to named members of a religious community, and asking him to collect gold coins and send a silver measure. It dates to the 6th century AD, possibly from Ankyron in the Herakleopolite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] To my lord brother Kornelios, deacon, from Sabinos, the least. Before all else I pray to the all-merciful God that you may receive my greeting in good health. And be so kind as to greet on my behalf our brother Abba Dorotheos and the lady his mother and the lords Makarios and Eusebes. Know that I have sent you four jars of oil and one small one, worth 2 solidi and 2 full carats, as you wrote to me; be so kind as to send me the account for them. And likewise I have sent you nine new gazitia of oil; be so kind as to give the mother Elia […] gazitia(?) and the virgin one gazition and brother Dorotheos one gazition, and be so kind as to keep the rest for yourself. And find out whether Abba Makarios needs anything, and write back to me; and if he wishes, be so kind as to provide the solidus for the iron, which I sent you. And be so kind as to collect solidi from every quarter and send them to me. Since you wrote to me about the ounce-weight(?), I have not yet found it, and with God's help I will send it to your holiness. And remember the silver xestes-measure and send it to me from the house of the lord Viktor, because I forgot it. Your servant Lykatos, who also wrote this letter, greets you. Pray for me. [verso] Deliver to the most holy and most God-fearing Abba Kornelios, deacon, from Sabinos, the least.

Gazition was a type of jar, originally for wine from Gaza; the solidus (holokottinos) was the Byzantine gold coin. The meaning of onkiaresion, here rendered ounce-weight, 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 Sabinos an Kornelios). 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.iand.6.103

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI · Ankyron ? (Herakleopolites)

[r] κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Κορνηλίῳ διάκονι παρὰ Σαβίνου ἐλαχίστου. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαι τὸν πανελεήμονα θεόν, ὅπως ὑγιαίνων ἀπολάβῃς τὴν παρʼ ἐμοῦ προσηγορίαν· καὶ καταξίωσον προσαγορεῦσαι ὡς ἐξ ἐμοῦ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀββᾶ Δωρόθεον καὶ τὴν κυρίαν τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς κυρίους Μακάριον…