Letter
Letter of Ioannes (pagarch of Antaiopolis?) to a protocometes of Aphrodito. The subscription on the verso of the document is made up of two lines. Belongs to the archive of Dioscoros.
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Letter from Ioannes to Dioskoros about handing over farmers to a shepherd TM 36531Antaiopolis (?)VIth Century AD
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A letter from Ioannes, possibly the pagarch of Antaiopolis, to Dioskoros son of Apollos, chief of the village (of Aphrodito), urging him under oath by Christ to hand over certain farmers listed for Makarios the shepherd, warning of the anger of the illustrious lord Menas. He also asks that Apollos be sent to him with the persons concerned. It dates to the 6th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
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☧ By the head of Christ, unless you hand over the farmers according to the list to Makarios the shepherd, no one is causing these things except your brotherliness. For God knows, the most illustrious lord Menas was very displeased about the shepherd, who came and spoke to him, and he is preparing an indignation which, as God knows, I hesitate to believe. For I persuade myself that […] he does not tolerate doing anything that grieves or harms you […]. Do me the favour, then, and […] and hand over the farmers according to the list sent to you by me, so that you may be freed from this distress. And for God's sake send me at once our common brother Apollos together with the persons. ☧
[verso]
☧ Deliver to the […] brother Dioskoros son of Apollos, chief of the village.
† Ioannes
Part of the archive of Dioskoros of Aphrodito; the identification of Ioannes as pagarch is conjectural. The word translated 'list' (gnosis) can also mean a notice or register of names.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Jean). 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.cair.masp.3.67322
[r] παρὰ ☧ μὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐὰν μὴ παραδώσῃς τοὺς γεωργοὺς πρὸς τὴν γνῶσιν Μακαρίῳ τῷ ποιμένι, οὐδεὶς παρέχει ταῦτα εἰ μὴ ἡ σὴ ἀδελφότης. Θεὸς γὰρ οἶδεν, πάνυ ὠλιγώρησεν ὁ λαμπρότατος κύριος Μηνᾶς περὶ τοῦ ποιμένος ἐλθόντος καὶ εἰπόντος αὐτῷ, καὶ τὴν ἀγανάκτησιν σκευάζ…