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Letter with various orders about gold, barley and firewood TM 39094unbekannt

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A fragmentary early Islamic-period letter giving various instructions about gold, barley and firewood to be sent, mentioning Severus, the soldier Phoibammon and the most glorious Kyros. It refers to the amir, sailors, and trouble caused by the Saracens, and to Antinoou (Antinoopolis).

In English machine translation

[recto] † The things from Severus […] of my master […] […] concerning which I also wrote to him through Phoibammon the soldier, so that […] […] of those who fled from (the village/city) of Apollo; for thus he told me that you will really impose it […] God willing, do not delay to receive the copy concerning this of the most glorious Kyros […] I have his letters concerning this gold, and since you wrote to me […] when therefore you did not receive the gold, truly a centenarium of firewood […] in writing and by word of mouth. I learned that the workmen […] of the gold sent to you by me through […] my master the most glorious Kyris to receive the barley of this […] so that I may send you the boat […] the one who ought to receive it […] of the barley and of the firewood I received letters of the […] by post-horses (?) […] of the soldier to me […] to go down and to drive […] so that Severus himself may urge them on as far as [verso] Antinoou, since […] our master the all-praised amir concerning the sailors […] and he himself is troubled by the Saracens. Learn, the (letters?) to you will arrive […] so that he may go off […] to Abramios letters of the […] and through him your health, and concerning which […] for the sake of this firewood † […] to brother […] notary †

The letter belongs to the Papas archive from Apollonos Ano in the early Arab period; the sender may be Elias. A 'centenarium' is a large unit of weight (100 pounds).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as D’Elias (?): ordres divers). 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

[r] † τὰ παρὰ Σευἡρου[…] τοῦ δεσπότου μου […] […] περὶ οὗ καὶ ἔγραψα αὐτῷ διὰ Φοιβάμμωνος στρατιώτου ὅπως[…] […]φυγόντων τῆς Ἀπόλλωνος· οὕτως γὰρ εἶπέν μοι ὡς ὄντως ἐπιρίψετε αὐτὸ […]θεοῦ κελεύοντος οὐ βραδύνητε δέξασθαι τὸ περὶ τούτου ἀντίγραφον τοῦ εὐκλεεστάτου Κύρου […]ιν ἔχω …