p.flor.2.130
[v] [… ? lines lost …] […]καταπιανθεῖσαν ὗν ἔχουσαν καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἧς πάνυ ἐχρῄζον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτους δ Φαῶφι ι [r] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 10982
Letter from Alypios to Heroninos about a fattened pregnant sow TM 10982Theadelphia (Arsinoites)6. März 267
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The end of a letter from Alypios, the estate owner, to Heroninos, manager of his estate at Thraso near Theadelphia in the Fayum. The surviving part concerns a fattened, pregnant sow that Alypios very much needed. It dates to the 260s AD.
In English machine translation
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[…] the fattened sow, which is also pregnant, which I very much needed.
I pray for your health.
Signed.
To Heroninos, manager, at Thraso.
Year 4, Phaophi 10.
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From Alypios […]
The text itself gives Year 4, Phaophi 10, which would normally fall in October 266, so the recorded date of 6 March 267 may rest on a different reading. The 'phrontistes' was the local manager of a unit of Alypios' large estate in the Heroninos archive.
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.