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Letter from Heras to Heroninos requesting pack animals and baskets TM 11055Theadelphia (Arsinoites)5. Aug. 267

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A letter from Heras to Heroninos, manager of an estate of Alypios, asking him to send the pack animals and baskets before dawn on the 13th so they will not be harassed as they were the previous year. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Fayum and dates to 5 August 267.

In English machine translation

Heras to his dearest Heroninos, greetings. I remind you of the harassment we suffered last year on account of the pack animals and the baskets. Since our lord Alypios is not in the city (otherwise I would have gone up to him and had him write to you), but since necessity presses, as you yourself are not unaware, I write to you, dearest, so that on the 13th, while it is still night, you send the pack animals and the baskets to me, so that we are not harassed as last year and suffer the same thing now as well. I pray for your health. Year 14, Mesore 12

Heroninos was the phrontistes (estate manager) at Theadelphia for the large estate of Aurelius Appianus, and Alypios was a senior administrator; "harassment" (epereia) likely refers to requisitioning or interference by officials.

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 - Heras). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 5. Aug. 267 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Ἡρᾶς Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ὑπομιμνήσκω σε τὴν ἐπήρειαν ἣν ἐπάθαμεν πέρυσι ἕνεκεν τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ τῶν κοφίνων. ἐπεὶ οὖν ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἀλύπις ἐν τῇ πόλει οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπεὶ ἀνηρχόμην πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ ἐποίουν αὐτὸν γράψαι σοι, ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ οὖν ἡ ἀνάγκη κατεπείγει ὡς καὶ σὺ οὐδὲ ἀγνοεῖς…