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HGV: P.Oxy. 3 529 [source] [xml]

Title Letter to Athenarus
Publications P.Oxy. 3 529
More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 3
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date II
More from the period between 101 CE and 200 CE
Subjects Brief (privat); N.N. an Athenarus; Begleitbrief zu Lebensmitteln
Images http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=4239...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 28369 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 3 529 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1903)
Inv. no. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum E 2804
Date AD 100 - 199
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

Catalog Record: upenn.apis.56 [xml]

Title Letter to Athenarous
Summary Letter to a woman called Athenarous, announcing the dispatch of oil and fruit. The writer, whose name is lost, seems to have occupied some official position, for he mentions that he was about to accompany the praefect to Coptos. (Grenfell & Hunt)
Citations P. Oxy. 3.529 [John R. Abercrombie, "The University Museum's Collection of Papyri and Related Materials," Expedition 20.2 (Winter 1978): 32-37.]
P.Oxy.:3:529
Inv. Id P.Penn. Museum inv.E02804
Support/Dimensions 8.2 x 12.2cm. The left and right margins, while frayed, show no loss of writing. The top and bottom margins, however, are broken, with clear loss of lines, either whole or partial.
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Language Greek
Date 2nd CE
More from the period between 100 CE and 199 CE
Note (general) Text is written on both sides; 17 lines with the fibers on the main side and 2 lines written with the fibers, perpedicular to the lines on the main side, on the reverse. Text mentions the location of Coptos.
Note (local/note) Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection
Subjects papyrus; documentary; letter
Associated Names Cerdon; Dionysius; Matris; Pausanias; Athenarous
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

Citations

DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.3.529 [xml]

II spc Oxyrhynchus

r
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
1πρὸ μὲν [πάντων εὔχομαί σε]
ὑγιαίνειν. κόμ[ισ]α̣ι διὰ Κ[έ]ρ-
δωνος ὥστε Διονυσίῳ
χρίματος κοτύλας δ καὶ
5σφυρίδιν τραγημάτων
ἔχων(*) ἀρίθμια σῦκα ρ
κάρυα ρ καὶ ἐλαίου χοὸς
ἥμισυ ὃ δώσεις τῷ αὐ-
τῷ Διονυσίῳ κοτύλας
10τέσσαρας καὶ σοὶ κοτύ-
λας δύο . ἄσπασαί σου
τὴν μητέρα καὶ
Μᾶτριν καὶ τὰ τέκνα
αὐτῆς καὶ τοὺς φιλοῦν-
15τάς σε πάντας. ἐγὼ δὲ
εἰς Κόπτον μετὰ τοῦ
ἡγεμόνος εἶμι
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- v
[ἀπόδος](*) ε̣ἰ̣ς τὰ Παυσανίου γενομέ-
[νου γραμμα]τέως πόλεως Ἀθηναρο̣ῦ̣τι Κέ̣ρ̣-
20δ̣ω(νος).

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^ r.6. l. ἔχον
^ v.18. BL 1.325 : [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩] prev. ed.

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HGV 28369 Translation (English) [xml]

(Translation: from P.Oxy. 3) First of all I pray for your health. Please receive through Cerdon for Dionysius 4 cotylae of unguent and a basket of dessert containing 100 figs, 100 nuts, and half a chous of oil, of which you will give 4 cotylae to the said Dionysius and keep 2 cotylae for yourself. Greet your mother and Matris and her children and all who love you. I am going to Coptos with the praefect. (Addressed) To the house of Pausanias, ex-clerk of the city, for Athenarous daughter of Cerdon.

APIS Translation (English)

First of all I pray for your health. Please receive through Cerdon for Dionysius 4 cotylae of unguent and a basket of dessert containing 100 figs, 100 nuts, and half a chous of oil, of which you will give 4 cotylae to the said Dionysius and keep 2 cotylae for yourself. Greet your mother and Matris and her children and all who love you. I am going to Coptos with the praefect. (Addressed) To the house of Pausanias, ex-clerk of the city, for Athenarous daughter of Cerdon. (Grenfell & Hunt)