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Ἀπιανὸς Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἐπέμφθησάν σοι καὶ νῦν ἄλλαι δραχμαὶ ἑκατὸν εἰς τὴν τίλαν τοῦ χόρτου. ἐπέστειλας δὲ δηλωθῆναί σοι τὸν μισθὸν ὃν εἰώθασιν λαμβάνειν οἱ ἐποικιῶται. ἔστιν δὲ ὁ ἐξ ἔθους αὐτῶν [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11038
Letter from Appianus to Heroninos about money for hay and workers' wages TM 11038Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 259
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Fragment of a business letter from Apianos (Appianus) to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia, in the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD. Apianos reports sending a further 100 drachmas for work on the hay and begins to answer Heroninos' question about the usual wage paid to the farmstead workers, but the rest is lost.
In English machine translation
Apianos to his dearest Heroninos, greetings.
Another 100 drachmas have now been sent to you as well for the plucking (?) of the hay. You wrote asking to be told the wage which the villagers of the farmsteads are accustomed to receive. Their customary wage is […]
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The word rendered "plucking" (tila) is a rare term for some operation in harvesting or handling hay. The epoikiotai are inhabitants of the estate's farmsteads (epoikia) who worked as hired labour.
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.