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Letter from Souchammon to Heroninos about a wine shipment from Talei TM 11121Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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A letter from Souchammon to Heroninos, manager of an estate unit at Theadelphia, reporting that on the orders of an esteemed landowner at Talei he has sent 96 of 120 monochora of wine by estate animals and hired donkeys. He asks for a receipt and tells Heroninos to pay the donkey hire.

In English machine translation

Souchammon to his dearest Heroninos, greetings. As the most esteemed councillor (euschemon) wished, being at Talei for the vintage he sent for me, and I received instructions to send you 120 monochora of wine. Of these I have sent you on account, by means of 4 of the estate's own animals, 32 monochora, and by means of 8 hired donkeys another 64 monochora of wine, total 96 monochora. So send me a letter of receipt, as the most esteemed councillor wished; and you will pay the hire charges of the 8 hired donkeys. Today I am going to Talei to the councillor. I pray for your health, dearest. Year 3, Thoth 9.

Part of the 3rd-century AD Heroninos archive from the Appianus estate. A monochoron is a single-chous wine jar; the euschemon is a man of high status, likely a landowner or councillor.

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. ὡς ἠθέλησεν ὁ ἀξιολογώτατος εὐσχήμων ἐν Ταλει ὧν τῇ τρυγῇ μετεπέμψατό με καὶ ἐντολὰς ἔσχον πέμψαι σοι οἴνου μονόχωρα ρκ ἀφʼ ὧν ἔπεμψά σοι ἐπὶ λόγου διὰ μὲν κυριακῶν κτηνῶν τεσσάρων μονόχωρα τριάκοντα δύο , διὰ δὲ ναυλωσίμων ὄνων ὀκτὼ ἄλλα οἴν…