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HGV: P.Oxy. 6 938 [source] [xml]

Title Letter of Demetrius
Publications P.Oxy. 6 938
More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 6
P.Oxy. I 161 descr.
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Translations Schubart, Ein Jahrtausend am Nil (1912) 84 und (1923) 86.; Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 76
Origin Oxyrhynchos
More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date spätes III - IV
More from the period between 276 CE and 400 CE
Subjects Brief (privat); Demetrios an Herakleides; Tadel für das Zurückhalten von Futter; wodurch die Bewässerung des Landes wegen Entkräftung des Viehs gefährdet ist
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 31327 [source]

Publications P. Oxy. 6 938 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1908) = P. Oxy. 1 161 descr. (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1898)
Inv. no. Chicago, Haskell Oriental Institute 2070
Date AD 275 - 399
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U19 - Oxyrynchos (Bahnasa)[found & written]
People mentioned people
Places mentioned places

DDbDP transcription: p.oxy.6.938 [xml]

III/IV spc Oxyrhynchus
[Reprinted from: p.oxy.1.161] POxy1,161

Δημήτριος Ἡρακλείδῃ πατρὶ χαίρειν.
οὐκ ἀκόλουθον πρᾶγμα ἐποίησας ἐνεδρεύσας τὰς τροφὰς τῶν κτηνῶν
τῆς Σεναώ, ἔκπαλαι ἐπισταλεὶς δώδεκα σαργάνας χόρτου ἐκεῖ ἀποστεῖλαι
καὶ μὴ πέμψας, ὡς ἐκ τούτου κινδυνεύειν τὰ κτήνη διαφθαρῆναι. τῶν
5οὖν κτηνῶν κακῶς ἐχόντων καὶ τῆς γῆς διὰ τοῦτο μὴ ποτιζομένης ἠπεί-
χθην καὶ νῦν σοι γράψαι ὅπως αὐτῆς ὥρας γομωθῆναι(*) ἐπιτηδείως τὰς σαργάνας
ποιήσας ἀποστείλῃς. τῇ γὰρ ἀσχολίᾳ μου {γαρ} ἔδο̣ξας ἐπεγ’γελᾶν.
ἐρρῶσθαί σε πολλοῖς χρόνοις
εὔχομαι.

Apparatus


^ 6. corr. ex γομω⟦σασ⟧
^ 7. επεγ’γελαν papyrus

Editorial History; All History; (detailed)

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HGV 31327 Translation (English) [xml]

1 Demetrios to Herakleides his father, greetings. 2 It was an unfitting act of yours to intercept the fodder for the oxen at Senao and not to dispatch it, although you had long ago been instructed to send twelve baskets of hay thither, with the result that the oxen are in danger of wasting away. Since the oxen are thus in a sorry state, and the land in consequence is not being irrigated, I hasten to write to you now once more and beg you instantly to get the baskets properly laden and send them off; for you seem to be mocking my industry. I pray for your long health.