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A short business letter from Alypios, the estate owner, to his local manager Heroninos, part of the Heroninos archive. Alypios tells him to go at once to Philagris and show his assistant Philippos where the stored produce was put, so that it can be brought up. Written in the mid-3rd century AD, in the Theadelphia area of the Arsinoite nome.
The Greek word translated 'produce' (genē) refers generally to stored crops or goods. Heroninos was the phrontistēs, the local manager of a unit of Alypios' large estate.
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.
[v] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἐπεὶ τὰ ἀποτεθέντα γένη ἐν Φιλαγρίδι ἀνενεχθῆναι ἐκέλευσα φρόντισον εὐθέως λαβών μου τὰ γράμματα ἐκδραμεῖν ἐκεῖ πρὸς Φίλιππον τὸν βοηθὸν ἡμῶν ἐπιδείξων τοὺς τόπους ἔνθα ἀπετέθη. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ. ἔτους β Φαῶφι κ [r]
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