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A private business letter from Palas to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, asking him to pass on to Eudaimon wine released by Maximos the diastoleus and to send him wine of good quality. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.
A diastoleus was an official or agent who checked and released goods; a dichoron is a two-chous wine jar. The middle lines listing the wine are badly damaged and the reading of 'kallone' (fine quality) is uncertain in places.
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 - Palas). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] Παλᾶς Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. καλῶς ποιήσεις μεταβαλόμενος Εὐδαίμονι ἃ ἀπέλυσέν μοι Μάξιμος ὁ διαστολεὺς οἴνου …… χιτιδο…… δίχωρα δυο… λα καλλονὴ ι…[…] καὶ ευ… ενειματο του…χ… ἔπεμψα φάσιν πρός σε ἵνα καλλονὴν μοι πέμψῃς. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε καὶ καλῶς ἔχειν πανοι…
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