Part of a letter to an official
Part of a letter to an official mentioning the chief-priest at Phebichis Petosiris the son of Hari�t�s.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 8258
Letter concerning oil and the chief priest Petosiris at Phebichis TM 8258Mummy A 2About 245 BC
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Fragment of a letter, probably to an official, mentioning Petosiris son of Haryotes, chief priest at Phebichis, and asking that Imouthes be instructed to measure out oil during the month of Phaophi. It dates to about 245 BC and comes from mummy cartonnage found at Hibeh.
In English machine translation
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[...] of Petosiris son of Haryotes, chief priest [...] at Phebichis. Please, if you think fit, instruct Imouthes [...] to measure out [...] oil still in the month of Phaophi [...] oikonomos [...]
The oikonomos was a Ptolemaic financial official in charge of revenues in a district. The beginning of the letter, with its sender and addressee, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Part of a letter to an official). 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.hib.1.131
[… ? lines lost …] […]Πετοσίριος τοῦ Ἁρυώτου ἀρχιερέως χ……[…] ἐν Φεβίχει. καλῶς ἂν ποιήσαις εἴ σοι φαίνεται συντάξας Ἰμούθηι […] μετρῆσαι […] ἔλαιον ἔτι ἐν Φαῶφι μηνὶ […] οἰκονόμος […]