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Letter to the comes and dioiketes Georgios asking help for estate villagers TM 39266OxyrhynchitesAnfang VII

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A letter from Georgios, a servant, to his master Georgios, comes and administrator (dioiketes) of the Apion estates, pleading for help for the estate dependants of Koba and several other villages and hamlets of the Oxyrhynchite nome. The request concerns the produce of the estates (hay, vegetable seed, lotus, wheat) and the fields.

In English machine translation

[recto] † I beseech our good master, for God's sake, help your servants of the village of Koba and, so that I may put them together, those from Isiou downward, and those from Phebichis and Mikra Rhyme, those from Talao and the hamlet of Tkout, and those from the village of Tholthis and Pmocheis Gole and Loustou Alichseneni (?) with others, and their many (?) [...] and [...] of the estates, whether hay or vegetable seed or lotus (?) or wheat, to receive them all, and the things belonging to it, and the irrigation machine (?), because of the full (?) [...] of the house of Arsas (?) of the Oxyrhynchites; we will do it for the sake of the fields. [verso] † To my own good master, after God patron, lord Georgios, comes and dioiketes, † Georgios Plebioeiekt (?), your servant.

The Greek is highly ungrammatical and several phrases (e.g. 'polymousois', 'ten meste tou epiktou eriskon') are obscure, so parts of the translation are conjectural. Georgios was an administrator of the great Apion household estates.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera a Georgios comes e dioiketes degli Apioni). 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 · Anfang VII · Oxyrhynchites

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