no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · papyrus
p.lond.4.1337
keiner via HGV-meta
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 19795.
Each record below describes this same ancient text from a different angle.
- keiner HGV-meta Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)10. Sept. 709
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
καὶ ἀμελῆσαι εἰς τὸ ἐκπέμψαι πρὸς ἡμᾶς τοὺς διασταλέντας διὰ τῆς διοικήσεώς σου ναύτας λόγῳ καράβων καὶ δρομοναρίων καὶ ἄλλων — κούρσου Αἰγύπτου ἰνδικτίονος ὀγδόης ἐπετρέψαμεν Ἁειαν υἱῷυιον Σωραεικ μισθώσασθαι τοὺς λοιπασθέντας διὰ σοῦ πρὸς τὸν ἐντεθέντα θεματισμὸν ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις ἐνταγίοις δεχόμενος οὖν τὰ παρόντα γράμματα ἀπόστειλον διὰ πάσης συντομίας πρὸς τὴν ἔνδον τῆς παρούσης ἐπιστολῆς γνῶσιν τὸ χρυσίον τοῦ μίσθου αὐτῶν μὴ ὑστερῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἓν νόμισμα καὶ μόνον καὶ γὰρ γινώσκομεν ὡς οὐ μέλεταί σοι οὔτε μὴν τοῖς τῆς χώρας μὴ ἐκτελέσαι μήτε δοῦναι πέρας παντοίῳ ἔργῳ ἐφʼ ὅσον οὐκ ἀπαιτεῖσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν λοιπαζομένων διʼ ὑμῶν εἰ μὴ πρὸς τὸν θεματισμὸν τὸν ἐνκείμενον ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις ἐνταγίοις. ἀλλʼ οὐ μὴ συγχωρήσωμεν εἶναι τὰ πράγματα οὕτως οὔτε γὰρ μέλλομεν ἐξισῶσαι τὸν ἵκανον καὶ χρήσιμον καὶ πληροῦντα ἀκαταφρονήτως τὰ διʼ αὐτοῦ τῷ ἀνικανοῦντι ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτρεπομένοις αὐτῷ παρʼ ἡμῖν διὰ δωροδοκίας. λοιπὸν ἐὰν ἔχεις φρέναςφραίνας ἐκτέλεσον τὴν διὰ γραμμάτων ἡμῶν ἐπιτροπὴν μὴ ληθῇ παραπέμπωνπαραπέμπον τι ἐκ τούτων ἀλλʼ ἐμπόνως ἀποτελῶν. ἐγράφη μηνὸς Θὼθ ιγ ἰνδικτίονος ηTranslations (1)
… and neglect to send out to us the sailors who were requisitioned from your administrative district for the carabi and dromonaria and other ships of the raiding fleet of Egypt in the 8th indiction, we have instructed Ḥayyān b. Shuraiḥ to hire those with whom you are in arrear in accordance with the rate (of wages) stated in our demand notes. On receiving the present letter, therefore, send with all speed, in accordance with the account enclosed with the present letter, the money for their wages, not keeping back one single solidus of it. For indeed we know that it is no concern to you nor yet to the people of your district to carry out or perform any sort of duty, unless you are importuned for the arrears in your payments, except in accordance with the instructions contained in our demand notes. But we will not allow this to be so; for we shall not treat the capable and efficient man who zealously performs his duty in the same way as him who through corruption falls short in the tasks entrusted to him by us. Therefore if you have any sense perform the command given by our letter, not sending any of these moneys negligently but discharging your duty zealously. Written the 13th Thoth, 8th indiction.
Connections
Found at
Aphrodites Kome (Antaiopolites)
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 19795 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.lond;4;1337 tier-1
- HGV-Text 19795 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 19795 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 19795 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 19795 (see that record)