One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11049
Letter from Herakleides to Heroninos about 200 drachmas from a shepherd TM 11049Theadelphia (Arsinoites)250 - 261
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A short business letter from Herakleides to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia in the Fayum, instructing him to collect 200 drachmas from the shepherd Atais and use them for dyke work or wages until Diodoros arrives to settle accounts. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
From Herakleides. Go to Atais the shepherd and receive from him 200 drachmas and keep them for the embanking work or else for the account of wages. Manage them as you wish until Diodoros comes down and settles accounts with such matters. I pray for your health.
To Heroninos, father.
Year 2, Thoth 18
"Father" is a courtesy address common in the Heroninos correspondence, not necessarily kinship. Opsonia were wage or ration allowances paid to estate workers.
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.
p.lond.3.962
παρὰ Ἡρακλείδου. γενοῦ πρὸς Αταιν τὸν ποιμένα καὶ δέξαι παρʼ αὐτοῦ δραχμὰς διακοσίας καὶ ἔχε αὐτὰς εἴς τε περιχωματισμὸν ἢ καὶ λόγον ὀψωνίων. ὡς ἐὰν θέλῃς διοίκησον αὐτὰς ἕως κατέλθῃ Διόδωρος καὶ συναρῇ τοιαύτοις. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. Ἡρωνείνῳ πατρί. ἔτους β Θὼθ ιη