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Fragmentary business letter from the Heroninos archive addressed to the estate manager at Theadelphia. The writer tells him to secure sufficient supplies until his own are ready, and to report how many artabas he can find, and at what price, before the pack animals are sent.
Part of the Heroninos archive of the Appianus estate; the database title associates it with Syros. The phrase translated 'at what price' is an interpretation of an elliptical Greek clause.
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 - Syros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] …… καὶ ἔλεγεν νῦν … περισσεύειν αὐτῷ ……ε περὶ τὰ μέρη …… ἔχειν ἄλλους ……υ οὖν πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ εὐθέτους ἔχοντας ἵνα δυνηθῇς ἔχειν τὴν αὐτάρκειαν ἔστʼ ἂν τὰ σὰ ἐν ἑτοίμῳ γένηται. ὅσας δὲ ἐὰν εὕρῃς ἀρτάβας καὶ ὡς ἂν αὐτὰς ἐκ πλέονος ἐπίστειλόν μοι πρότερον πρίν…
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