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A fragmentary letter from Palas to Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, part of the Heroninos archive. It concerns four dichora (two-measure jars), apparently wine, which Palas asks to be good ones.
A dichoron is a jar holding two choes, commonly used for wine in the Heroninos archive. The middle of the letter is largely illegible.
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 - Appendice). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Παλᾶς Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις …… λοι παρʼ η…… δίχωρα τέσσερα γίνεται δίχωρα δ ἀλλὰ καλὰ καὶ εἰς … …τα θέλεις ἀλλα …[…] […]εμε…ει…καπετ…… […]μ…κ…[…] […]αν πα…[…] αξια Λεοντᾶτος ……… χωρεῖ αὐτω…τι[…]. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι[…] ……
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