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Letter from Monimos to Heroninos complaining of spoiled wine TM 11080Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A letter from Monimos to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia, acknowledging receipt of 56 jars of wine delivered by two donkey-drivers on seven donkeys. He complains that many jars have turned to vinegar or smell bad and asks for instructions so he can come and exchange them for good wine.

In English machine translation

[verso] Monimos to his dearest Heroninos, greetings. I received today too, through Ammonios and Houtos, donkey-drivers, by means of seven donkeys, 56 single monochora of wine together with dichora, total 56, from those released to me, for which I will give account. But if all that you send were like these, I have no need of them; for many of them are vinegar and smell bad. Send me word about this, so that I may come up and refuse them and perhaps take other good ones, and so that the shaking-out (?) may not be harmed. For what you sent me is stored away and no one has taken even one jar. I pray for your health, dearest. [recto]

Part of the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD, from the Appianus estate. Monochora and dichora are one- and two-measure wine jars; the sense of ektinagmos (a 'shaking out', perhaps the clearing or sale of the stock) is uncertain.

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 - Monimos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.flor.2.209

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

[v] Μόνιμος Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. παρέλαβον καὶ σήμερον διὰ Ἀμμωνίου καὶ Ηουτος ὀνηλατῶν διὰ ὄνων ἑπτὰ οἴνου σὺν διχώροις ἁπλᾶ μονόχωρα πεντηκονταέξ γίνεται νϛ ἐκ τῶν ἀπολυθέντων μοι ὧν λόγον δώσω. ἐὰν δὲ τοιαῦτα ἦν ὅλα ἃ πέμπεις οὐ χρῄζω αὐτῶν· καὶ γὰρ πολλὰ ὄξη ἔχει καὶ …