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A business letter from the Heroninos archive in which Syros instructs Heroninos, estate manager at Theadelphia, to give Palas, the manager of the Philoteris unit, 50 monochora of wine for his expenses, to take a receipt, and to transport the wine with his own animals. It is dated Year 3, Choiak 1.
A monochoron is a single-measure wine jar; a phrontistes was the local manager of an estate unit in the Appianus estate. The regnal year probably belongs to the mid-3rd century AD, as with the rest of the 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.
Σύρος Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. παράδος Παλᾷ φροντιστῇ Φιλωτερίδος εἰς τὰ παρʼ αὐτῷ ἀναλώματα ὧν λόγον δώσει οἴνου ἐκ τῶν ἑτοιμοτέρων μονόχωρα πεντήκοντα λαμβάνων παρʼ αὐτοῦ γράμματα τῆς παραλήμψεως ἡ δὲ μεταφορὰ αὐτῶν γενέσθω ἐκ τῶν παρά σοι κτηνῶν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε…
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