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Letter from Alypios, head of a large estate, to Heroninos, manager of the estate's unit at Thraso, from the Heroninos archive of Theadelphia in the Fayum. He sends carpenters to cut wood for tools, and asks Heroninos to give them their usual rations and an ox-team to haul the timber to the village, adding that a second ox-team from Taureinou has also been ordered.
Part of the 3rd-century AD Heroninos archive from the estate of Aurelius Appianus. The word for the timber's destination near the end is only partly legible, and the rendering of ἀργαλεῖα as 'tools' 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. τοὺς τέκτονας Ὀλυμπιόδωρον καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ ἀπέστειλα πρός σε ἕνεκεν ἀναγκαίας χρείας ὥστε ἀργαλεῖα κόψαι εἰς τὴν ὑπηρεσίαν ἡμῶν. τὰς οὖν συνήθεις τροφὰς παράσχες αὐτοῖς καὶ τὸ ταυρικὸν ἵνα σύρῃ εἰς κώμην τὰ ξύλα. ἐπέστειλα δὲ καὶ εἰς Ταυρείνου ἵνα καὶ ἐκεῖνο ἔ…
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