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p.flor.2.262 Theadelphia (Arsinoites)
Corrispondenza heroniniana - Incerti o ignoti, ad Heronino via HGV-meta
Letter from Geminos to Heroninos about axles for a garden water-wheel. A letter from the Heroninos archive in which Geminos tells Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia, that the carpenter Hermes holds 160 drachmas of his for two eight-cubit axles. Because the garden of Theoxenis is idle, he urgently asks Heroninos to find an axle of 9 1/2 cubits that same day so he can send the ox-team to fetch it, and to keep an eye on the carpenter's money, noting a former price of 10 drachmas per cubit. machine translation
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- Corrispondenza heroniniana - Incerti o ignoti, ad Heronino HGV-meta Theadelphia (Arsinoites)250
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Transcription
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Ἡρωνείνῳ Γέμεινος χαίρειν.
Ἑρμῆς τέκτων ἔχει μου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα εἰς ἄξονας δύο ὀκταπήχεις. ἐπεὶ οὖν χρῄζει ὁ κῆπος τῆς Θεοξενίδος
χρῄζει ἄξονος πηχῶν ἐννέα ἡμίσους ἔργον μὲν ποίησον
τάχα εὕρῃς μοι αὐτὸν ἐπεὶ ὁ κῆπος ἀργεῖ. ἀντίγραψόν μοι οὖν
περὶ τούτου ἵνα πέμψω τὸ
ταυρικὸν ἐπὶ αὐτόν. ἀλλὰ πάντως, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῇ σήμερον.
προτήρει οὖν οὗ ἔχει κέρματος·
ἀπήλλαξεν γάρ τοτε τὸν πῆχυν
δραχμῶν δέκα .
ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι […]Translations (1)
[verso]
Gemellus (?) to Heroninos, greetings.
Hermes the carpenter has 160 drachmas of mine for two axles of 8 cubits. Since, then, the garden of Theoxenis needs, it needs an axle of 9 1/2 cubits, make an effort; perhaps you may find it for me, since the garden is idle. Write back to me then about this, so that I may send the ox-team for it. But by all means, but today. Keep watch then over the small change he has; for he once settled the cubit at 10 drachmas.
I pray for your health […]
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- TM-Text 11149 primary
- DDbDP-Text p.flor;2;262 tier-1
- HGV-Text 11149 tier-1
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