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A letter from Alypios, a great landowner, to his estate manager Heroninos at Theadelphia in the Fayum, part of the Heroninos archive of AD 249-268. Alypios explains that urgent business called him to the city, so instead of visiting the vineyards himself he is sending Philippos to inspect the estate, the harvest and the fodder and report back.
The scribe deleted 'olive' after 'vineyard' and also struck out 'my assistant' after Philippos's name. The address line names Heroninos as sender and Alypios as recipient, the reverse of the letter's heading, which looks like a docket or a slip.
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.
[r] παρὰ Ἀλυπίου. ἐβουλόμην μὲν καὶ αὐτὸς ἐλθεῖν διὰ σοῦ ἵνα καὶ τὰ κτημάτια τὰ ἀμπελικὰ ἐφίδω καὶ τὴν συγκομιδήν σου καὶ τὴν τοῦ χόρτου πρόνοιαν γνῶ, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ ἤπειξέν με ἀνελθεῖν ἐν τῇ πόλει τινὰ ἀναγκαῖα ἀπέστειλα Φίλιππον ἵνα πάντα ἐπίδῃ καὶ μεταδῷ μοι ἐπειγομένῳ[…] [… ? line…
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