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A letter from Alypios, owner of a large estate, to his manager Heroninos at Thraso, part of the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia. Alypios says he has sent river-workers to a job at Theoxenis, the work at the sand, and orders Heroninos to supply them with bread and other provisions so they work willingly.
The potamitai (river-workers) were labourers employed on canals and waterworks. The year in the date line is lost, so only the month Mesore survives.
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. ἐπεὶ ποταμίτας ἐκέλευσα εἰς τὸ ἔργον ἐκεῖνο τὸ τῆς Θεωξενίδος τουτέστιν τὸ τῆς ἄμμου ἀπελθεῖν σπουδή σοι γενέσθω ἄρτους καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ὑπηρεσίαν ἀποστέλλειν αὐτοῖς ἵνα ὑπηρετούμενοι προθύμως ἡμῖν ἐργάζωνται ἔχοντες τὸ ἀμέριμνον τῶν τροφῶν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι … Ἡ…
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