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A short letter from Isidoros to Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia, asking him to load the messenger Sauelo at once with two artabas of bread. Isidoros stresses the urgency, citing the pressures at Dionysias, where they cannot even supply those present.
Part of the Heroninos archive, the correspondence of the manager of a large estate's unit at Theadelphia in the mid 3rd century AD; no exact date is preserved. 'Sauelo' is an unusual name, given here as written.
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 - Isidoros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] Ἰσίδωρος Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. τὸν Σαυελο ἔπεμψα ἵνα αὐθωρὸν αὐτὸν γεμίσῃς ἄρτων ἀρτάβας δύο . ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐν παρέργῳ τοῦτο σχῇς καὶ τῷ ἔργῳ ἐπηρεάσῃς πάνυ κατεπείγοντος οἶδας γὰρ τὴν ὄχλησιν τῆς Διονυσιάδος νῦν ὅτι οὐδὲ τοῖς παροῦσι δυνώμεθα ὑπακούειν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι…
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