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Letter from Souchammon to Heroninos about a wine shipment from Talei TM 11120Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A letter from Souchammon to Heroninos, the estate manager in the Heroninos archive at Theadelphia, reporting that he has sent wine from the Talei unit of the estate on 17 hired animals, 50 double-jars and 36 single-jars, totalling 136 single-jars. He asks Heroninos to send a written receipt.

In English machine translation

Souchammon to his dearest Heroninos, greeting. I have sent you today too, from the produce of the estate (phrontis) of Talei, as the most notable councillor (euschemon) instructed, by means of 17 hired transport animals, 50 double-jars of wine and 36 single-jars, total 136 single-jars. So send me a letter of receipt. ⟦a letter of⟧ I pray for your health, dearest. Year 3, Phaophi 16.

Phrontis is the term for a local management unit of the large Appianus estate; euschemon is an honorific title for a town councillor. The total counts each double-jar as two single-jars (50 x 2 + 36 = 136).

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 - Suchammon). 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 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Σουχάμμων Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι καὶ σήμερον ἀπὸ γενήματος φροντίδος Ταλει ὡς ἐπέστειλεν ὁ ἀξιολογώτατος εὐσχήμων διὰ ναυλωσίμων δεκαεπτὰ οἴνου δίχωρα ν μονόχωρα τριακονταὲξ γίνεται μονόχωρα ρλϛ. πέμψον μοι οὖν γράμματα τῆς παραλήμψεως ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε.…