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A business letter from Eudaimon to Heroninos, manager of the estate unit at Theadelphia in the Fayum, reporting that he has sent 9 pack animals with two donkey-drivers carrying 16 double jars and 32 single jars, on the order of a councillor, and asking for written confirmation. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.
Dichora and monochora are wine jars of two and one chous capacity. The euschemon (here rendered councillor) is a title for a member of the local elite, likely the estate owner.
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 - Eudaimon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Εὐδαίμων Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι σήμερον διὰ Κάρβωνος ὀνηλάτου κτηνῶν τεσσάρων καὶ Ἀιώνιος ὀνηλάτου κτηνῶν πέντε ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ θ σὺν διχώροις ιϛ ἁπλᾶ μονόχωρα λβ ἐξ ἐντολῆς τοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου εὐσχήμονος ὧν μοι πέμψον γράμματα. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι τιμιώτατε ἔτους γ…
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