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Letter from Alypios to Heroninos about an assistant sent for the harvest TM 10972Theadelphia (Arsinoites)250 - 261

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A short business letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to Heroninos, his estate manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum. Alypios is sending his assistant Dioskorion to stay for the harvest and orders that he be given his customary expenses and a small pack animal for going round the threshing floors.

In English machine translation

From Alypios. I have sent you Dioskorion the assistant so that he may stay on for the harvest-gathering. But provide him also with all his expenses, according to custom. And provide him also with a small animal so that he can go round the threshing floors. I pray for your health. Signed (?). To Heroninos, manager of Theadelphia. Year 1, Epeiph 9.

Part of the Heroninos archive, the papers of the managers of the Appianus estate. The word synkomide means the gathering in of the harvest crop, and the 'signed' mark is an abbreviation of semeioumai, used by Alypios to authenticate his orders.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Corrispondenza heroniniana - Alypios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 250 - 261 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. Διοσκορίωνα τὸν βοηθὸν ἀπέστειλά σοι ὥστε παραμεῖναι τῇ συγκομιδῇ. ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν δαπάνην αὐτῷ πᾶσαν παράσχες κατὰ τὸ ἔθος. ἀλλὰ καὶ κτηνύδριον αὐτῷ παράσχες περιτρέχων τὰς ἅλως. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ Θεαδελφείας. ἔτους α Ἐπεὶφ θ