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Letter from Ischyrion to Heroninos about fodder for an ox-team carrying wood TM 11072Theadelphia (Arsinoites)28. Sept. 264

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A short business letter from Ischyrion to Heroninos, the estate manager at Thraso, instructing him to supply hay and the usual allowance to the ox-team coming down to load wood. It belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome and dates to 28 September 264.

In English machine translation

From Ischyrion. Provide the ox-team that is going down to load wood with hay and the customary allowance. I pray for your health. To Heroninos, manager, at Thraso. Year 12, Phaophi 1

Heroninos was phrontistes (local manager) of the Thraso unit of the large Appianus estate. 'Ox-team' renders tauriko(s), the estate's bull or ox draught team. The 'customary allowance' (synēthēs dapanē) refers to the usual provisions or expenses granted to the team.

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 · 28. Sept. 264 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

παρὰ Ἰσχυρίωνος. παράσχες τῷ ταυρικῷ κατερχομένῳ εἰς γόμωσιν ξύλων χόρτον καὶ τὴν συνήθη δαπάνην. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι. Ἡρωνίνῳ φροντιστῇ Θρασώ. ἔτους ιβ Φαῶφι α