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Letter from Herakleides to Petesouchos requesting two jars of capers TM 11052Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268

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Fragmentary letter from Herakleides to Petesouchos, reproaching him for his careless treatment and asking him to send two jars of capers immediately, possibly by buying them. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, AD 249-268.

In English machine translation

Herakleides to Petesouchos, greetings. You have treated me carelessly. I do not want you to be such a person […] […] See to it, as soon as you receive the letter, that you send me at once the 2 jars of capers […] […] or, having bought […] […] the […] […] […]

Part of the Heroninos archive, the correspondence of the estate of Appianus. The end of the letter is lost.

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.

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p.flor.2.187

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

Ἡρακλείδης Πετεσουχῳ χαίρειν. ἀσπουδάστως ἐχρήσω μοι. οὐ βούλομαι δέ σε τοιοῦτον εἶναι ε…[…]…[…]…… ὄψῃ κομισάμενος τὸ ἐπιστόλιον εὐθέως μοι πέμψεις τὰ δύο κεράμια τῶν καππάρεων ιδ[…] […]ι ἢ ἀγοράσας […]τοι…ε τὸ ημε[…]…ενει χρη [… ? lines lost …]