Letter from Alypios ordering timber beams to be sent by camel TM 11021Theadelphia (Arsinoites)260 - 268

A letter from Alypios, the great estate owner, to one of his estate managers, ordering him to load three camels with timber, including six yoke-beams lying near the estate of Chrysochoos, and other beams of eight and nine cubits, apparently for water-lifting machinery. The camel drivers are to receive their usual rations. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, AD 260-268.

In English machine translation

Zygotauron seems to denote a beam or yoke used in an ox-driven water wheel (saqiya); the exact sense of several technical terms in the damaged middle section is uncertain. The word 'Chrysochoos' may be a personal name or mean 'the goldsmith'.

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.