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Letter from Alypios to Heroninos sending an order for wine to cover expenses TM 10983Theadelphia (Arsinoites)6. Juni 257

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Letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to his estate manager Heroninos at Theadelphia. Knowing that Heroninos needs money for the Amesysia festival and for hay, Alypios sends him a release order for 100 monochora of wine to be collected from the manager Dionysios at Ibion Argaiou. Dated 6 June 257 in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] From Alypios. I have read what you wrote, and knowing that your administration needs funds for expenses, especially on account of the festival of the Amesysia and the provision of hay, I have sent you one release order for 100 monochora of wine from Ibion Argaiou, addressed to Dionysios the manager; see to it that you dispatch (men) for these immediately. I pray for your health. Signed. To Heroninos, manager of Theadelphia. Year 4, Pauni 12. [verso] From Alypios to Heroninos, manager of Thraso[…].

Part of the Heroninos archive; the Amesysia was a festival of Isis. An apolysidion is a release or delivery order, and a monochoron a wine jar of one chous capacity; the verso address may read Thraso or be a slip for Theadelphia.

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 · 6. Juni 257 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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