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Letter from Ophellios to Heroninos about a cart wheel TM 11090Theadelphia (Arsinoites)27. Juli 257

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A business letter from Ophellios to Heroninos, manager of an estate unit at Theadelphia in the Fayum, ordering the carpenters to cut a wheel felloe and send it to the city with the ox-driver Anoubis to build a wheel for his cart. He stresses that the cart must not stand idle because cart work is urgent. It is dated 27 July AD 257.

In English machine translation

From Ophellios. Have the carpenters with you cut one felloe (wheel-rim segment) and send it up to the city by Anoubis the ox-driver, enough for the construction of one wheel of the cart he drives. But make sure by all means that the cart is not left idle. For you are not unaware of the urgent work of the carts. I pray for your health. To Heroninos, manager. Year 4, Mesore 3.

Part of the Heroninos archive from the Appianus estate. 'Hapsis' here means a curved felloe of a wheel rim, and 'karnon' is a type of cart.

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 - Ophellios). 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 · 27. Juli 257 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

παρὰ Ὀφελλίου. ποίησον τοὺς παρά σοι τέκτονας κόψαι ἁψίδα μίαν καὶ ἀνάπεμψον εἰς τὴν πόλιν διʼ Ἀνούφεως ταυρελάτου χωροῦσαν εἰς κατασκευὴν τροχοῦ ἑνὸς τοῦ ὑπὸ αὐτὸν κάρνου. ἀλλὰ πάντως ἵνα τὸ κάρνον μὴ καταργηθῇ. οὐκ ἀγνοεῖς γὰρ τὰ κατεπείγοντα ἔργα τῶν κάρνων. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομα…