One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11063
Letter from Ischyrion to Heroninos urging him to come and settle accounts TM 11063Theadelphia (Arsinoites)
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A short business letter from Ischyrion to Heroninos, estate manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum, rebuking him for failing to come up within three days as promised to settle an account and urging him to drop everything and come. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of a large private estate.
In English machine translation
From Ischyrion.
I am surprised that up to today you have not come up to settle (?) the account. For although you undertook to do this within three days, you did not do it. So put everything else aside and come up, so that you may also take receipt of the items requested for you. I pray for your health.
To Heroninos, manager of Theadelphia.
Year 1, Thoth 29.
The phrase rendered 'settle the account' (literally 'having changed the account') is idiomatic and its exact sense is uncertain. Heroninos was phrontistes, local manager of the Appianus estate's unit at Theadelphia in the mid-3rd century AD; year 1 probably refers to an emperor's first regnal year.
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 - Ischyrion). 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.lips.1.107
παρʼ Ἰσχυρίωνος. ἐθαύμασα πῶς μέχρι σήμερον οὐκ ἀνῆλθες ἀλλάξας τὸν λόγον. ταξάμενος γὰρ ἐντὸς ἡμερῶν τριῶν τοῦτο ποιῆσαι οὐκ ἐποίησας. πάντα οὖν ὑπερθέμενος ἄνελθε ἵνα καὶ τὰ πρὸς σὲ ζητηθέντα λημματίσῃς. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. Ἡρωνείνωι φροντιστῇ Θεαδελφείας α ἔτους Θὼθ κθ.