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Letter of the notary Menas to his master TM 37111Oxyrhynchos (?)VI - VII

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Fragment of a letter from Menas, a notary, to his master. He reports that after reaching a place called Skelos his feet became sore and he could not move, asks his master to entreat a certain Megas and to pray, and complains that someone has still not sent him the copies. Probably from Oxyrhynchus, 6th-7th century AD.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [nor until] today has [...] come; what is coming to us I do not know, master, [...] I reached Skelos, my feet became sore, and until today [they have not been able] to move [...], but entreat the Megas, pray [...] [...] until today he has not sent me the copies. [...] And I, Menas, notary, your slave, make obeisance to my [master. †] [...]

Skelos appears to be a place name. Megas ("the Great") may be a personal name or an honorific for an official.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Menae notarii ad dominum epistulae fragmentum). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · VI - VII · Oxyrhynchos (?)

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…]…[…]…[…] […]οὐδὲ μέχρι τῆς σήμερον ἦλθεν τ…[…]ανδα· ἡμῶν τὰ ἐρχόμενα οὐκ οἶδα, δέσποτα,[…]… ἔφθασα τὸ Σκέλος, ἐπόνησα τοὺς πόδας καὶ ἕως σήμερον οὐκ ἐδυνήθησαν παρʼ ἐμοῦ αἱ […] ς κινηθῆναι, ἀλλὰ παρακαλέσατε τὸν Μέγα, εὔχεσθε […] μέχρι τῆς σήμερον οὐκ ἔπ…