A letter from Syros to Heroninos, manager at Theadelphia in the Heroninos archive, instructing him to hand over 32 monochora of wine, from the wine transferred from Ibion or Talei, to the estate manager Serenos, take a receipt, and send it with his pack animals. It is dated Year 3, Phaophi.
In English machine translation
Syros to Heroninos, his dearest, greeting.
Hand over to Serenos the phrontistes […] from the wine transferred to you from Ibion or Talei, 32 monochora of wine, receiving from him a written acknowledgement of receipt. Let it be conveyed to him by means of the animals you have with you, since, as you know, […] from Trikomia […]
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A monochoron is a one-measure wine jar; a phrontistes is a local manager of a unit of the Appianus estate. The letter belongs to the 3rd-century AD Heroninos archive.
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.