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HGV: P.Oxy. 7 1065 [source] [xml]

Title Letter of Hephaestion
Publications P.Oxy. 7 1065
More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 7
W.Chr. 120
Sel. Pap. I 138
Tibiletti, Lettere private 6
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries VIII 240
Translations Tibiletti, Lettere private (1979), 6
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date III
More from the period between 201 CE and 300 CE
Subjects Brief (privat); Hephaistion an Stephanos; dringende Bitte zu kommen; Drohung an die Götter
Images http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dlo?obj=pts.apis.4...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 31312 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 7 1065 Vo (Hunt, Arthur S.; 1910) = Chrest. Wilck. 120 (Wilcken, Ulrich; 1912) = Sel. Pap. 1 138 (Hunt, Arthur S.; 1932)
Inv. no. Princeton, Theological Seminary P. 4 Vo
Reuse Type reuse of blank side of: 322170
Date AD 200 - 299
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

Catalog Record: pts.apis.4 [xml]

Title Letter of Hephaestion
Summary Side 1: a short personal letter from one Hephaestion to a friend, Stephanus, entreating the latter to come at once because of some unspecified circumstances. Side 2: apparently a complaint against a brother in the matter of the division of a piece of land.
Citations P.Oxy. 7.1065 W.Chr. 120 Sel.Pap. I 138
P.Oxy.:7:1065
Inv. Id SCR 1035 (Box 3), item 2
Support/Dimensions 9 x 9.5 cm. One mid-sized papyrus fragment, apparently cut from a larger document and reused; numerous small holes; significant (water?) damage to the lefthand side, including a 3 x 3 cm lacuna at bottom.
Origin Oxyrhynchus
More from Oxyrhynchus
Language Side 1: Greek; Side 2: Greek
Date III c. CE
More from the period between 200 CE and 299 CE
Note (general) Side 1: 8 lines written against the fibers; informal uncial hand; ample margins at left, top, and bottom.
Note (general) Side 2: 12 lines written with the fibers; different hand; text cut off on all sides from subsequent reuse.
Note (local/note) Pap. 4, Special Collections, Luce Library, Princeton Theological Seminary; Princeton, N.J.
Subjects papyrus; documentary; letter
Associated Names Hephaestion; Stephanus
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.7.1065 [xml]

III spc Oxyrhynchus
[Reprinted from: chr.wilck.120] W.Chr. 120

Στεφάνῳ παρὰ Ἡφαιστίωνος.
λαβὼν τὰ γράμματα τοῦ υ(*)ἱ(*)οῦ
μου Θέωνος ἐξαυτῆς πάντα ὑ(*)περ-
θέμενος ἐλθέ μοι εἰς τὸ ἐποίκιον
5διὰ τὰ συμβάντα μοι. ἐὰν δὲ
ὀλιγωρήσῃς, ὥσπερ [ο]ἱ θεοὶ οὐκ ἐ-
φίσαντό(*) μ[ο]υ οὕτως κἀγὼ(*)
θεῶ[ν] οὐ φί[σ]ομαι(*).
——
[ἔρρωσ]ο̣.

Apparatus


^ 2. ϋϊου papyrus
^ 3. ϋπερ papyrus
^ 6-7. l. ἐ |φείσαντό
^ 7. l. καὶ ἐγὼ
^ 8. l. φείσομαι

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HGV 31312 Translation (English) [xml]

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 7) To Stephanus from Hephaestion. On receipt of the letter from my son Theon put off everything and come at once to me at the village because of what has happened to me. If you neglect this, as the gods have not spared me so will I not spare the gods. Good-bye.

APIS Translation (English)

To Stephanus from Hephaestion. On receipt of the letter from my son Theon put off everything and come at once to me at the village because of what has happened to me. If you neglect this, as the gods have not spared me so I will not spare the gods. Goodbye.