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Letter from Ischyrion to Heroninos about animals for fodder transport TM 11067Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A short business letter from Ischyrion, part of the Heroninos archive, ordering Heroninos, estate manager at Thraso near Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, to send the pack animals at once for the delivery of fodder, as was customary.

In English machine translation

From Ischyrion. Send up at once the animals you have to the fodder supply, together with the bundles (?), according to the previous custom. I pray for your health. To Heroninos, manager of Thraso. Year 5, Pharmouthi […]

The word mandakai (here 'bundles (?)') probably refers to bundles or ropes used for carrying hay; its exact meaning is uncertain. Heroninos was phrontistes (estate manager) of the Thraso unit of the Appianus estate in the 3rd century AD.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

παρὰ Ἰσχυρίωνος. τὰ παρά σοι κτήνη ἐξ αὐτῆς ἀνάπεμψον εἰς τὴν χορτηγίαν μετὰ τῶν μανδακῶν κατὰ τὸ προάγον ἔθος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι Ἡρωνίνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτους ε Φαρμοῦθι […]