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Letter from Appianus to the manager Eirenaios about loaves and hare products TM 11035Theadelphia (Arsinoites)12. Nov. 257

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A letter from the estate owner Appianus to Eirenaios, his estate manager at Theadelphia, rebuking him for not sending good loaves despite repeated instructions and asking also for a small quantity of a hare-derived substance needed by doctors for eye-salves and other remedies. Dated 12 November 257 AD, it belongs to the Heroninos archive.

In English machine translation

From Appianus. Some days ago too I wrote that you should make good loaves and send them up to us, and you did not do it; and yesterday, which was the 15th, meeting the donkey-driver Sokra(tes), I gave him the same instructions. But since I know that you need both compulsion and reminding, for this reason I have now written to you again about this. And there is also need of the little hares' ointment (?), the 'topárion'; even if only a little, you must put in a topárion. For it is absurd that they should buy it when they supply it to everyone. For the doctors need it both for eye-salves and for other medical purposes. I pray for your health. To Eirenaios, the estate manager. Year 5, Hathyr 16.

The meaning of 'lagodia' (little hares, or a hare product) and 'toparion' (a small measure or local product) is uncertain. The final numerals (16, 26) are given as written; the HGV date corresponds to Hathyr 16.

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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 12. Nov. 257 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

παρὰ Ἀπιανοῦ. καὶ πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἐπέστειλα ἵνα ἀρτίδια καλὰ ποιήσηται καὶ ἀναπέμψηται ἡμῖν καὶ οὐκ ἐποιήσατε καὶ ἐχθὲς ἥτις ἐστὶν ιε συντυχὼν τῶι ὀνηλάτῃ Σωκρα τὰ αὐτὰ αὐτῷ ἐνετειλάμην. ἐπεὶ δὲ οἶδα ὅτι καὶ ἀνάγκης καὶ ὑπομνήσεως χρῄζετε διὰ τοῦτο καὶ νῦν ὑμῖν ἐπέστειλα περὶ τούτου. …