One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 36232
Letter from a comes authorizing building works on a hospice and estate TM 36232unbekanntV - VI
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A letter from a comes to the most God-beloved Epiphanios, probably a cleric, authorizing him to rebuild a leased building with stone slabs, add a kitchen in the courtyard, buy materials and improve the great suburban estate. The writer promises to reimburse all expenses in full. It dates to the 5th or 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
† To the most God-beloved Epiphanios, […] with God's help, † comes. I have entrusted
your God-belovedness, or rather I have asked it, to
build with stone slabs your hospice (?), which you have leased, and to engage carpenters and have it made,
and to have a kitchen built inside the courtyard, and for you to put in stones and lime and pitch-work and to buy timber, and, simply put, to embellish everything,
and especially also the great suburban estate, with me crediting
all the expenses incurred by you in full;
and when a reckoning, that is a settlement of trust, is made, I credit everything to you in full
with thanks. Written in the month of Mesore, 16th. †
The word hospition (Latin hospitium) may mean a lodging or guesthouse rather than a hospice. The writer's name in the first line is damaged, and the letter also bears the number P.Bas. 1.19.)
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter related to the construction of a hospition). 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.bas.2.52
† τῷ θεοφιλεστάτῳ Ἐπιφανίῳ ξ…τα[…]τος σὺν θεῷ † κόμης. ἐπέτρεψα τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ θεοφιλίᾳ ἤτοι καὶ ᾔτησα αὐτὴν ὥστε ἀπὸ λιθοπλάκων ποιῆσαι τὸ ὁσπίτιον σου, ὃ ἐμισθώσω καὶ τέκτονας βαλεῖν καὶ ποιῆσαι αὐτῷ γενέσθαι καὶ μαγειρεῖον ἔσω εἰς τὴν αὐλὴν καὶ βαλεῖν σε λίθους καὶ κονίας καὶ πισσ…