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Letter of Severos concerning the management of an estate TM 39122unbekannt

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A fragmentary Byzantine letter from Severos to a superior he addresses as 'brotherly lordship', concerning the affairs of an estate. It mentions purchases at 27 per solidus, donkeys, building a camel stable and a wine cistern, the vintage, the monastery of Apa Pambo, the priest Zacharias, and someone held in prison at Antinoe.

In English machine translation

[recto] † I received [the letter from your God-guarded brotherly lordship], and having learned […] the imposed […] and about the resource (?) […] the Coptic words 'piah Chalē' (?) […] that Kyris Soterichos […] of nothing […] and with God commanding […] before my going up […] since he wrote to him and to release (him) to him; for concerning […] of the aforementioned meat, countless (?) […] for […] at the same time they seek, so that I am to be at Apa Pambo […] because of the great trouble I am compelled to buy what he needs […] for he will assure your God-guarded brotherly lordship […] those sought by us were bought at 27 to the solidus […] and donkeys of before again; and as to what they tell us, if not […] nor have they made a start on building until now […] of the solidus (?) manfully […] […] [verso] […] before everything […] write to me; for if […] through God we are in health and […] my […] Zacharias the most God-beloved priest; but I receive letters […] make the camel-stable, fixing the foundation […] boundary of the wine cistern and so to the west and […] and I greet your God-guarded brotherly lordship […] his vintage implements (?) and he may find many since he manured […] be neglected. I am surprised how you have not sought until [now] […] especially since if the matters concerning this drag on […] if you seek now. And so that you may know that today, which is […] from Hermonthis […] and again, having learned […] in the prison of Antinoe one [month] before […] the vintage implements (?) […] I, Severos, your servant, kiss your all-honoured [feet] […]

The letter belongs to the Apollonos Ano (Edfu) archive of the 7th century AD; one line contains apparently Coptic words of uncertain meaning. 'Trygetika' probably refers to vintage dues or equipment.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre concernant un domaine). 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 γράμματα παρὰ τῆς θεοφυλάκτου ὑμῶν ἀδελφικῆς δεσποτείας ἐδεξάμην, καὶ μαθὼν […]ην τὴν ἐπικειμένην[…] καὶ περὶ τῆς ἀφορμῆς […]…ι πιαϩ Χαλη διατ[…]ῆναι τὸν Κῦριν Σωτήριχον μηδενὸς […]στιν καὶ Θεοῦ κελεύοντος εγρ[…]το πρὸ ἀνόδου μου […]ετρον ἐπεὶ ἔγραφεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπολῦσαι π…