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HGV: SB 16 12607 [source] [xml]

Title Geschäftsbrief
Publications SB 16 12607
More in series SBMore in series SB, vol. 16
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Translations Drexhage - Konen - Ruffing, Wirtschaft (2002), S. 288, M 81.; Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 75; H.C. Youtie, ZPE 36, 1979, S. 81; Rowlandson, Women and Society (1998), 192
Origin unbekannt
More from unbekannt
Material Papyrus
Date II - III
More from the period between 101 CE and 300 CE
Print Illustrations ZPE 36, 1979, Tafel I c
Subjects Brief; Dionysios an Hermes und Dioskoras; niedriger Preis für Weizen; Auftrag; viel zu kaufen. Bitte um Mitteilung der Menge und des Maßes für die Abrechnung.
Images http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-1969...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 26741 [source]

Publications SB 16 12607 (Rupprecht, Hans-Albert / Hengstl, Joachim; 1985) = ZPE 36 (1979), p. 78- (Youtie, Herbert Chayyim / ; 1979)
Inv. no. Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 341
Date AD 100 - 299
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt[found & written]
People mentioned people

Catalog Record: michigan.apis.1969 [xml]

Title private letter
Author Dionysios
Summary Dionysios writes to Hermes and Dioskoras concerning a matter of business.Dionysios appears to be general manager of extensive properties belonging to Theodora. He writes to two of his subordinates, who are described on the verso as estate managers (phrontistai). He has heard that the year's crop are going at very low prices, and wheat specifically in their locality at 12 drachmas per artaba. Since Theodora wishes them to buy up as much wheat as they can, Dionysius instructs them to spend two talents for this purpose. The only condition he imposes is that what they obtain in this way be "good clean seed."
Citations Youtie HC, ZPE 36, 77-81, 1979, Pl Ic -- SB XVI 12607 -- l. 6: {a soi}; l. 9 {e} umein; l. 10: {tai}?; l. 12: apolambane{is}te; l. 13: agorase{s}te. (TC)
SB.:16:12607
Inv. Id P.Mich.inv. 341
Support/Dimensions 2 papyri ; 3.4 x 14 cm.; 7 x 13 cm.
Condition This papyrus, as we now have it, consists of two substantial fragments. Their measurements are given above. The narrower piece preserves on its lower half the left edge of the text and a small portion of the blank margin. The wider one presents intact the right side of the text, with a margin of ca. 2 cm. Above the text is a truly generous margin of 3.5 cm., but unfortunately the sheet has lost perhaps as much as half its length at the bottom. Also missing is a strip of papyrus extending the entire height of the sheet, luckily narrow but increasing in width toward the bottom. The consequent loss of text is for the most part not irreparable. The address on the verso, of which only one word survives, runs parallel with the fibers, not far below the present left edge of the smaller fragment, which however was not the original left edge of the papyrus (cf. above).
Lines 1-14
Recto/Verso Source of description: Recto + Verso
Hands The writer of this letter shows the effect of a good education in Greek. His hand is impressive, with letters well structured but not pedantically so. Each letter is separate and distinct, in reasonably close contact with its fellows but without ligatures. Although the alignment is far from perfect, the script is natably legible. As happens not infrequently in private letters, the text is addressed to two persons, but singular pronouns and verbs were used throughout in the first writing. Noteworthy is the care with which the writer went through the entire text entering interlinear corrections of all singulars to plurals.
Origin unknown
More from unknown
Language Greek
Date IInd/IIIrd century A.D.
More from the period between 100 CE and 299 CE
Note (general) Location: Ann Arbor
Note (general) Pub. status: Recto + Verso
Note (related) -
Subjects -; Papyrus; documentary
Associated Names Dionysios; Hermes; Dioskoros; Theodora
Images Recto thumbnail
Images Recto medium
Images Recto large
Images Verso thumbnail
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Citations

DDbDP transcription: sb.16.12607 [xml]

II/III spc ?

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[Δι]ονύσιος Ἑρμῇ καὶ Διοσκορᾷ τοῖς
[τι]μιωτάτ[οις] χαίρειν.
[με]τέλαβον ἀπ̣[ὸ   ̣  ̣]ω̣νος τοῦ ἐπισκέπτου ὅτι
οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀ̣[παιτ]ουμένων οὐκ ἀποκρεί-
5νονται(*) διὰ τ[ὴν τῶ]ν γενῶν εὐωνίαν.
ἔλεγεν γὰρ τὸν [πυρὸ]ν̣ εἶναι παρʼ ὑμεῖν(*) δραχμῶν
δώδεκα . καὶ τ[οῦτο] ἀκούσασα Θεοδώρα ἡ μι-
κρὰ ἠθέλησεν [κομίζ]εσθαι αὐτῇ \ὑμᾶς/ ὅσον ἐὰν δύ-
νησθε. εἰ οὖν ἐ[στι τ]οῦτου(*), ἀγοράσατε ὅσας ἐὰν
10δύνησθε ἀρτάβας [πυροῦ] ταλάντων δύο , μ̣ό̣νον
καλοῦ σπέρμ[ατος] καθαροῦ, καὶ δηλώσατέ μοι
ποταπῷ μέτ̣[ρῳ ἀπο]λαμβάνετε. ὅσον οὖν ἐὰν
ἀγοράσητε δη[λώσατέ μοι] ἵνα εἰς ἐφημερίδα τὴν
[τ]ε̣[ι]μ̣ὴν(*) [γράψω ἐ]φʼ ὑμ[ῖ]ν̣ [  ̣  ̣]  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- v
15[Ἑρμῇ καὶ Διοσκορᾷ τοῖς] φροντισταῖς

Apparatus


^ r.4-5. l. ἀποκρί |νονται
^ r.6. l. ὑμῖν
^ r.9. l. [τ]οῦτο
^ r.14. l. τιμὴν

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APIS Translation (English)

"Dionysios to the most esteemed Hermes and Dioskoros, greeting. I learned from the inspector . . . that the majority of those who are being dunned for taxes do not respond because of the cheapness of the crops. For he was saying that wheat is going in your locality for twelwe drachmas. And when she heard this, the little Theodora wished you to get for her as much as you can. If then this is the situation, buy however many artabas of wheat as you can for two talents, but only good clean seed, and let me know with what measure you receive it. However much therefore you buy let me know so that I may enter the price in the account of daily expenses in your name . . .";(Verso): "To Hermes and Dioskoras, the estate-managers."