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A business letter from Ninnos to Heroninos, manager of the Theadelphia unit of the Appianus estate, about Memphitic jars of wine sent from the city by hired animals. Heroninos is to hold them until the manager of Dionysias sends for them, record them in his accounts as from Eudaimon, and obtain a written receipt on handover.
Part of the Heroninos archive (3rd century AD). The phrontistes was the local estate manager; 'memphitia' denotes a type of wine jar, and 'Eudaimon' might be read as a personal name or not.
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 - Ninnos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[ctr] Νίννος Ἡρωνίνῳ τῶι φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. τὰ διαπεμπόμενά σοι ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως διὰ κτηνῶν ναυλωσίμων οἴνου μεμφίτια μη παράλαβε καὶ ἔασον παρά σοι ἔστʼ ἂν μεταπέμψηται αὐτὰ ὁ τῆς Διονυσιάδος φροντιστής. λημμάτισον δὲ διὰ τῶν λόγων σου παρʼ εὐδαίμονος. ὅταν δὲ προλαβὼν μεταπέμψηται …
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