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Letter from Alypios to Gelasios and Herakleides about work on a dike TM 10985Theadelphia (Arsinoites)29. Okt. 257

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A short letter from Alypios, the estate owner in the Heroninos archive, to his agents Gelasios and Herakleides at Theadelphia, dated 29 October 257. He rebukes them for needing a reminder about the fixed days of a distribution or payment and orders that work proceed as usual on a whole dike, saying he has sent Timaios there.

In English machine translation

[recto] From Alypios. You ought not even to need a reminder, since you know the fixed days of the distribution (?). Let it be done, then, according to custom, on the whole dike of M…tilas; for I have sent Timaios there too, and you have sent word of this to me (?) for Gelasios' people and Phirmos. I pray for your health. Year 5, Hathyr 2. To Gelasios and Herakleides, 4 (?) [verso] To Herakleides and Gelasios

Part of the Heroninos archive; the name in 'dike of M…tilas' is only partly legible, and the sense of the clause about Gelasios and Phirmos is uncertain. Greek 'chōma' denotes an earthen dike or embankment of the irrigation system.

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 · 29. Okt. 257 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἔδει μὲν ὑμᾶς μηδὲ ὑπομνήσεως χρῄζειν εἰδότων ὑμῶν τὰς τακτὰς ἡμέρας τῆς δόσεως. γενέσθαι ου῏ν κατὰ τὸ ἔθος εἰς ὅλον τὸ χῶμα τοῦ Μ…τιλα· ἀπέστειλα γὰρ ἐκεῖ καὶ Τίμαιον, καὶ τοῖς περὶ Γελάσιον καὶ Φίρμον ἐπεστείλατέ μοι τοῦτο. ἐρρῶσθαι εὔχομαι ὑμᾶς. ε ἔτους Ἁθὺρ …