Letter from Victor to George
Cf. P.Oxy. XVI 1844. A request for the repair of a boat, the rudder of which had been broken.
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Letter from Victor to George about repairing a fishing boat TM 37852Oxyrhynchus6th or 7th century
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A short letter from Victor, deputy landowner, to George, manager of an estate, asking him to have a fishing boat with a broken rudder repaired so that it can be sent to Alexandria, and to send a messenger to the harbour for this purpose. It comes from Oxyrhynchus and dates to the 6th or 7th century AD.
In English machine translation
[recto]
†
† May your true brotherliness be pleased to have the fishing boat which he calls the "plucked" (?) devotedly made ready and repaired, since, as he says, its rudder is broken and it needs to be repaired, because I wish to send it to Alexandria. †
And send also a messenger (symmachos) to the harbour for this very purpose. †
[verso]
† To my master in all things, most illustrious, worthy of all honour, true brother George, manager (dioiketes), † Victor, with God, deputy landowner (antigeouchos).
A symmachos was a letter-carrier or messenger on large estates. The meaning of 'tetilmenon' (literally 'plucked') as a description or name of the boat 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 Letter from Victor to George). 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.oxy.16.1846
[r] † † θελήσῃ ἡ σὴ γνησία ἀδελφότης τὸ ἁλιευτικὸν ὃ λέγει τὸ τετιλμένον καθοσιωμένως παρασκευάσαι φιλοκαληθῆναι, ἐπειδὴ ὡς λέγει τὸ πηδάλιον αὐτοῦ κεκλασμένον ἐστὶ καὶ χρεία ἐστὶν τοῦ φιλοκαληθῆναι αὐτό, ἐπειδὴ θέλω πέμψαι ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ. † πέμψῃ δὲ καὶ σύμμαχον εἰς τὸν ὅρμον εἰ…