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Letter from Ninnos to Heroninos and Pontikos requesting a nine-cubit axle TM 11088Theadelphia (Arsinoites)31. März 253

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Letter from Ninnos to Heroninos, estate manager at Theadelphia, and Pontikos, asking them to send at once a nine-cubit axle for the garden of Dioskoros and Betilos and to forward a letter to Heron. It belongs to the Heroninos archive and dates to 31 March 253.

In English machine translation

[recto] Ninnos to Heroninos and Pontikos, his dearest, greetings. Send up at once one axle of nine cubits, suitable for the garden of Dioskoros and Betilos, but at once, since […] […] garden (?) […] it is […] to send it together with the […]. And the little letter which I sent along to Heron, so that from there he may bring back the same karnon (?) itself, send it. For this reason I have sent someone to you, so that you do not detain him. I pray for your health, dearest ones. Year 3, Pharmouthi 5 [verso] To Heroninos, manager, and Pontikos

The axle was probably for a water-wheel (saqiya) irrigating the garden. The word karnon is obscure and its meaning 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 - 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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 31. März 253 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] Νίννος Ἡρωνίνωι καὶ Ποντικῷ τοῖς φιλτάτοις χαίρειν. ἕνα ἄξονα ἐννεάπηχυν ἐξαυτῆς ἀναπέμψατε χωροῦντα εἰς κῆπον Διοσκόρου καὶ Βετιλου ἀλλʼ ἐξαυτῆς ἐπεὶ ω…τε……νος […]ν κηπω…… τος ἐστὶν πέμψασθαι αὐτὸν σὺν τῷ μεχ……… σιως. τὸ δὲ ἐπιστόλιον ὃ συνέπεμψα πρὸς Ἥρωνα ἵνα ἐκεῖθεν τὸ κά…