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Letter from Appianus to Heroninos demanding the return of items TM 11024Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A short business letter from Appianus, owner of a large estate, to Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum, rebuking him for not yet sending back certain items he had already been asked for. It is part of the Heroninos archive and is dated year 2, Mesore 9.

In English machine translation

[recto] From Appianus. On another occasion too you were written to to send back the …zypha (?), and up to now you have not sent them. So even now send them, so that we do not treat you as such a person: if you are careless about things of no account, how much more about the more necessary ones. Year 2, Mesore 9. To Heroninos, manager of Theadelpheia. [verso] To Heroninos, manager of Theadelpheia.

The word for the items requested is damaged and uncertain. The phrontistes was the local manager of a unit of Appianus' estate; the regnal year 2 likely falls in the AD 250s-260s, the period of the Heroninos archive.

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 - Appianos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.flor.2.170

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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