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A short business letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to Heroninos, manager of the Thraso unit. Alypios says he has sent the carpenter Mareinos to cut wood for the irrigation machinery and tells Heroninos to supply food for the oxen and ox-drivers and the usual allowance for the carpenter. It was written in AD 267 and belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia.
The 'machines' (mechanika) are water-lifting devices, such as ox-driven waterwheels, used for irrigation. 'Paki' may be a place name or a person's name; its reading and sense are 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.
παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἐπεὶ ἀπέστειλα τέκτονα Μαρεῖνον ἵνα κόψῃ ξύλα εἰς τὰ μηχανικὰ τοῦ Πακι καὶ τῶν ἐνθάδε μερῶν φροντίσον τοῖς ταυρικοῖς τροφὰς παρασχεῖν καὶ τοῖς ταυρελάταις, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ τέκτονι τὴν συνήθη δαπάνην. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. σεσημείωμαι Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτους ιδ Τῦ…
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