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A fragmentary letter from Ninnos to Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum, replying to a letter and concerning a slave boy, the dekaprotos Sarapion, and donkey-drivers for pack animals. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.
The dekaprotos was a municipal liturgist responsible for collecting taxes in kind. The right side of every line is lost, so the precise business remains unclear.
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.
[r] Νίννος Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν λαβών σου τά γράμματα σήμερον τ[…] τοῦ παιδαρίου τοῦ καρνερίου […] Σαραπίωνι τῷ δεκαπρώτῳ τ[…] ἕνεκεν ὃς ἔλεγεν ἐπεστάλθαι δ[…] βοηθο… ὡς καὶ ἀλλα εἰληφότος ς[…] χ…αι ἐπωμνύετο ὧδε ἐπιστ[…] σήμερον παραδοῦναί σοι εἴ τι βουλ[…] μετεπεμψάμην δὲ…
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