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A letter from Herakleides to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, part of the Heroninos archive. Because the pack-saddles needed for carrying harvested sheaves were found broken, he asks Heroninos to send a carpenter with his tools via the slave Mydas.
Dragmategia is the transport of harvested sheaves to the threshing floor, here by donkeys fitted with pack-saddles (kantheleia). The text is written on the verso of a papyrus also published as P.Lond. III 948.
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 - Herakleides). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] Ἡρακλείδης Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἐπεὶ βοηθὸς ἀπεστάλη ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰσχυρίωνος τῆς δραγματηγείας χάριν, τὰ δὲ κανθήλεια εὕρηκε κατεαγμένα καὶ ἄχρηστα, ἀναγκαῖόν σοι οὖν γενέσθαι λαβόντα μου τὰ γράμματα ἕνα τῶν παρά σοι τεκτόνων παραδοῦναι Μυδα τῷ παιδαρίῳ ἵνα αὐτ…
παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου. γεμίσατε[…] τὰ κτήνη τουπιον ξύλων καυσίμων καλῶν καὶ ἀνερχέσθω ἐὰν ἦν παυσάμενος τοῦ ἀχύρου. ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀμελήσητε. γράφεται ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἐξερχέσθω Ἡρακλείδης τῇ α. ἐὰν οὖν μὴ σχολάσῃ ἐγὼ ἐξέρχομαι. καὶ περὶ κέρματος γράφε. γεινέσθω οὖν ὁ Σύρος πρὸς τοὺς ποιμένας. ὁ μὲ…
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