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A short business letter from Alypios, the estate owner, to Heroninos, manager of his estate unit at Thraso. He orders the two carts sent to Papias and Demeas to be loaded with logs, with the number of logs reported, and tells him to give the bulls their usual fodder and the drivers their expenses. It was written on 25 December 264 in the Arsinoite nome.
Part of the Heroninos archive of the Appianus estate. The word 'karna' is rare and its translation as 'carts' or 'wagons' is uncertain.
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. τὰ ἀποσταλέντα κάρνα δύο τῷ τε Παπίᾳ καὶ τῷ Δημέᾳ εἰς τὴν ἀναφορὰν τῶν ξύλων γόμωσον δηλώσας τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ξύλων. τοῖς οὖν ταύροις τὰς συνήθεις τροφὰς δὸς καὶ τοῖς ταυρελάταις τὴν δαπάνην. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῃ Θρασώ. ἔτους ιβ Χοι…
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