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Letter from Appianus to Heroninus complaining about rotten figs TM 11033Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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Letter from the estate owner Appianus to Heroninus, manager of his estate at Theadelphia, complaining that a man and a donkey were wasted carrying four small baskets of rotten figs without an accompanying letter. He notes that the poor figs reveal neglect of the estate and suggests that Heroninus and the manager at Euhemeria should coordinate their shipments.

In English machine translation

From Appianus. Even if someone sends up the smallest thing, he ought to send it with a letter and make clear what was sent up and by whom. What you sent up was not so much that both a man and a donkey should be kept idle for four little baskets of rotten figs. And from the poor quality, dryness and thirst of the figs the neglect of the estate was evident. But about these matters we shall some day settle an account with them. And the man of Euhemeria also sent up another man with a few things. You could both have sent things up by one man, each informing the other. To Heroninus, manager. Year 3, Epeiph 24 [verso] To Heroninus, manager.

Part of the Heroninus archive of the Appianus estate (3rd century AD); year 3 is a regnal year, probably of Gallienus (AD 255). The phrontistes was the local manager of a unit of the estate.

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.2.176

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

[r] παρὰ Ἀπιανοῦ. καὶ ἂν τὸ βραχύτατόν τις ἀναπέμπῃ ὀφείλει μετὰ γραμμάτων ἀναπέμπειν καὶ δηλοῦν τί ἀνεπέμφθη διὰ τίνος. ἃ δὲ ἀνεπέμψας οὐκ ἦν τοσαῦτα ὥστε καὶ ἄνθρωπον καὶ ὄνον καταργηθῆναι διὰ τέσσαρα κερτύλλια συκαρίων σαπρῶν. ἐνεφαίνετο δὲ ἐκ τῆς τῶν σύκων κακίας καὶ ξηρότητο…