One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11053
Letter from Herakleides to Heroninos about an oil-presser's equipment TM 11053Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268
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Fragmentary business letter from Herakleides to Heroninos, manager on the Appianus estate at Theadelphia, instructing him to hand over an oil-presser's item to the donkey-driver Amesysis after agreeing its value and price. Further instructions about animals are too damaged to follow. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of AD 249-268.
In English machine translation
Herakleides to Heroninos his father, greetings.
Hand over the mould (?) of the oil-presser to Amesysis the donkey-driver, having valued it together with him and fixed the price […] the oil-presser […] lacking (?) […] his […] and the other four-footed animals […] to secure through […]
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The word typos (literally 'mould, pattern') is uncertain in this context and may refer to a piece of pressing equipment. 'Father' is a customary courtesy term in this archive, not necessarily kinship.
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.3.1122b
Ἡρακλείδης Ἡρωνείνῳ τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. τὸν τύπον τὸν τοῦ ἐλαιουργοῦ παράδος Ἀμεσύσῳ τῷ βαδιστηλάτῃ συντιμήσας αὐτὸν καὶ ὁρίσας τὴν τιμὴν εἰςτὸν ἐλαιουργὸν […]αριτως ἐπιλει […]θω… αὐτοῦ τὰς […]καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τετράποδαἀσφαλίσαι δια [… ? lines lost …]