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Title Letter from Marres to Menches
Publications P.Tebt. 1 23
More in series P.Tebt.More in series P.Tebt., vol. 1
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries ; XIII 255
Translations Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 100; Bagnall & Derow, The Hellenistic Period (2004), Nr. 85
Origin Arsinoites
More from Arsinoites
Material Papyrus
Date ca. 119 v.Chr. (?)
More from the period between 119 BCE and 118 BCE
Date ca. 114 v.Chr. (?)
More from the period between 114 BCE and 113 BCE
Commentary Alternativdatierung: ca. 114 v. Chr.
Subjects Brief; Marres (Topogrammateus) an Menches (Dorfschreiber); Protektion
Images https://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/apis/apis2?apisid=396&ite...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 3659 [source]

Publications P. Tebt. 1 23 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S. / Smyly, J. Gilbart; 1902)
Inv. no. Berkeley, Bancroft Library Crocodile 14.3
Date BC 114 about? ((P08) or P09 K3) or BC 119 about? ((P08) or P09 K3)
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00c - Tebtynis (Umm el-Baragat)[found]; Egypt, 00c - Kerkeosiris[place of writing & destination]
Archive Village scribes of Kerkeosiris (Menches)
People mentioned people

Catalog Record: berkeley.apis.396 [xml]

Title Marres' letter : to Menches
Author Marres
Summary Marres complains to Menches for not having given a relative of his the special treatment he deserved, and urges him to not repeat such behavior in the future.
Citations P.Tebt., I.23
P.Tebt.:1:23
Inv. Id P.Tebt.0023
Material Papyri
Support/Dimensions 1 papyrus ; 17 x 15.7 cm.
Lines 15 lines, on recto along the fibers.
Recto/Verso On verso, address (along the fibers)
Hands Regular cursive.
Language Greek
Date Between 120 and 110 B.C.
More from the period between 120 BCE and 110 BCE
Note (general) Verso published
Note (general) Margins: top, 3 cm.; left, 3 cm.; bottom, 3 cm.; in top margin, in red ink "23"; sheet join 7.7 cm. from left (overlap 1.2 cm.)
Note (general) Menches archive
Note (local/note) 1661
Note (local/note) Bancroft Library, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
Subjects Nepotism; Kerkeosiris; Business letters, Ptolemaic period
Associated Names Menches; Melas; Demetrios, son of
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DDbDP transcription: p.tebt.1.23 [xml]

119/114 BC Tebtynis

r
Μαρρῆς Μεγχῆι(*) χαίρειν. Μέλανος τοῦ
οἰκείου ἡμῶν μεταδεδωκότος ἡμῖν περὶ ὧν
ἀπέφαινεν ἠδικῆσθαι ὑπὸ σοῦ καὶ Δημητρίωι
τῶι τοῦ Νιβοίτου ἠναγκάσθαι διαβαλεῖν, καθʼ ὑ-
5περβολὴν βεβαρυμμένοι ἐπὶ τῷ {σε} μὴ διʼ ἡμᾶς
ἐπισημασίας αὐτὸν τετευχέναι προσδεδε-
ῆσθαι δὲ(*) καὶ Δημητρίου οὐκ ὀρθῶς κρίνομεν
πέπρακταί σοι μὴ ἐκ τῆς ἡμῶν προεδρίας
πεφροντικέναι ἀπροσδέητον ἑτέρων γενέσθαι.
10διὸ καὶ ἔτι καὶ νῦν καλῶς ποιήσεις φιλοτιμό-
τερον προθυμηθεὶς ἵνα τὰ πρὸς αὐτὸν [  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]
διορθώσηι μετακαλέσας ἐκ τῶν προηγνοημένων.
——
εἰ δέ τινα ἕξει[ς] πρὸς αὐτὸν λόγον σὺν αὐτῶι
σύντυχε ἡμῖν.
15ἔρρωσο. v
κω(μο)γρ(αμμάτει) Μεγχῆι.

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APIS Translation (English)

Marres to Menches, greeting. My kinsman Melas has appealed to me concerning an alleged injury from you obliging him to complain to Demetrios son of Niboitas. I am excessively vexed that he should have gained no special consideration from you on my account and should therefore have asked assistance from Demetrios; and I consider that you have acted badly in not having been careful that he should be independent of others owing to my superior rank. I shall therefore be glad if you will even now endeavor more earnestly to correct your behavior towards him, abandoning your previous state of ignorance. If you have any grievance against him apply together with him to me. Good-bye. (Addressed on the verso) To Menches, village scribe.