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Letter from Horion to Heroninos about transport animals and wine TM 11102Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A letter from Horion to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia in the Fayum, about two sacks sent by a donkey-driver and complaining that Heroninos failed to send animals to carry wine from Talei. Horion demands the animals or 102 jars of wine from the balance Heroninos holds for him, and rebukes his unkindness.

In English machine translation

Horion to his dearest Heroninos, greeting. I have sent you through Akes the donkey-driver the two sacks released to you. Please send me a letter about them. On another occasion too you were written to about your animals, so that they might carry wine for me from Talei, and you did not send them; for my own animals are carrying chaff for the […]. So even now send them to Talei in my name, or if you have it with you, send the equivalent, 102 single-measure jars. It is not today that I have come to know your inhumanity; I have always known it. I think that if the animals were yours you would not be obstructing the work like this. So I have sent you Akes with 2 animals. Load him from the balance of mine that you hold, and let me know. I pray for your health.

Part of the Heroninos archive of the third century AD. The word for those receiving the chaff is illegible; 'monochora' denotes jars of a single (standard) measure.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.flor.2.226

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

[v] Ὡρίων Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. διεπεμψάμην σοι διὰ Ακη ὀνηλάτου τοὺς ἀπολυθέντας σοι σάκκους δύο . καλῶς ποιήσεις πέμψας μοι αὐτῶν γράμματα. καὶ ἄλλοτε ἐγράφη σοι περὶ τῶν κτηνῶν σου ἵνα μετενέγκωσί μοι οἴνον ἀπὸ Ταλει καὶ οὐκ ἔπεμψας τὰ γὰρ ἐμὰ ἀχυρηγεῖ τοῖς π…α…ευταις. …