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Letter from Anoubion to Alypios forwarding a letter and requesting wine TM 10996Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A short letter from Anoubion to Alypios, forwarding a sealed letter from Alypios' brother Claudianus and asking Alypios to reply to it and to obtain for Anoubion a metretes of omphakinon wine at whatever price. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Greetings, my lord Alypios. I, Anoubion, address you. I have sent you a little letter from your brother Claudianus, sealed with his seal. On receiving it you will write back to him. Please, my lord, also arrange for me a metretes of omphakinon wine, at whatever price it may be. May you continue in good health for me together with your dearest ones, my incomparable lord Alypios.

Omphakinon wine was made from unripe grapes; a metretes is a liquid measure. Alypios was the landowner whose estate is documented in the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.

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 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] χαίροις κύριέ μου Ἀλύπι. Ἀνουβίων σε προσαγορεύω. ἐπιστόλιον τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου Κλαυδιανοῦ ἐσφραγισμένον τῇ αὐτοῦ σφραγῖδι ἔπεμψά σοι. τοῦτο λαβὼν ἀντιγράψεις αὐτῷ εὖ ποιήσεις κύριέ μου προνοήσας καὶ ἐμοὶ μετρητοῦ ὀμφακίνου οἴνου ἧς ἐὰν ἦν τιμῆς. ἐρρωμένος μοι διατελοῖς μετὰ τῶν…