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Letter from Horion to Heroninos about wine for Longinus and medicine for a bull TM 11097Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A letter from Horion to Heroninos, manager in the Heroninos estate archive at Theadelphia. He asks him to transfer 8 dichora of wine to his friend Longinus, who has already paid for it, and to send on a medicine brought by the donkey-driver Akes for a sick bull.

In English machine translation

Horion to his dearest Heroninos, greeting. If you please, dearest, out of the wine transferred to me from the city for the expenses of my management that are with me, transfer to my friend Longinus 8 dichora of wine, total 8 dichora, the price of which I received here from him for the expenses of my management, being in need. So by all means transfer them to him today. The drug brought down by Akes your donkey-driver for the bull that is with me, by all means send it on to me, so that the bull too may be treated. I pray for your health, dearest. Year 3, Epeiph 7.

A dichoron is a double-measure wine jar. The phrase rendered 'management' (phrontis) refers to the administrative unit of an estate run by a manager in the Appianus estate.

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 - Horion). 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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p.flor.2.222

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

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