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Letter from Ation to Heroninos about sending pack animals with grain sacks TM 11045Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268

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A letter from Ation to Heroninos, manager of an estate unit at Theadelphia in the Fayum, belonging to the Heroninos archive of the Appianus estate (AD 249-268). Ation reports informing Alypios about a matter concerning bulls and instructs Heroninos to send five pack animals by night with sacks of grain to the place of Bebrychos.

In English machine translation

[verso] Ation to Heroninos, most honoured, greetings. I informed my lord Alypios about the bull-transport (?) until Kyriakos was instructed to come down for it. About the other matters, if you wish, write to me; I am at the (estate) of Nikomedes. So do everything as the honourable gentleman (euschemon) wrote to you: by night send the five animals to the (estate) of Bebrychos […] with the sacks they have, having filled the grain that was emptied then. If they do not have the four sacks to fill, load those they have, and the others I will fill, the empty ones, at the (estate) of Bebrychos. I pray for your health, most honoured. [recto]

The meaning of 'taurikon' (something relating to bulls or oxen) is uncertain here. 'Euschemon' is a status title for a respectable local notable, without exact English equivalent.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.flor.2.184

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 249 - 268 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

[v] Ἀτίων Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν. μετέδωκα τῷ κυρίῳ μου Ἀλυπίῳ ἕνεκεν τοῦ ταυρικοῦ ἕως παρηγγείλη Κυριακὸς κατελθεῖν ἐπʼ αὐτό. περὶ ὧν ἄλλων εἰ θέλεις γράψον μοι ὄντι ἐν τῷ Νεικομήδους. πᾶν οὖν ποίησον ὡς ἔγραψέν σοι ὁ εὐσχήμων νυκτὸς ἀπόστειλον τὰ πέντε κτήνη εἰς τὸ Βέβρυ…