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A letter from Syros, an estate manager, to Heroneinos and Serenos, instructing them that if a bull from the Dionysias unit, being driven to Ibion Argaiou, has to stop overnight with either of them, they should feed it and pay the bull-driver the usual expenses. It belongs to the Heroninos archive and is dated 25 February 257 at Theadelphia.
"Under the axle" seems to mean the bull was pulling a wagon or cart. The closing instruction to be content with reading the letter apparently means they should not keep it as authorization or ask for anything more.
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 Ἡρωνείνῳ καὶ Σερήνῳ τοῖς φιλτάτοις χαίρειν. ἐὰν ἓν τῶν ταυρικῶν τῆς Διονυσιάδος παρέχητε ὁπότερʼ ὑμῶν ὑπὸ ἄξονα ἀποφερόμενον εἰς Ἰβιῶνα Ἀργαίου καὶ ἡ ὥρα αὐτὸν καταλάβῃ τοῦ καταχθῆναι παρʼὑμῖν παράσχετε αὐτῷ τροφὰς καὶ τῷ ταυρελάτῃ τὴν συνήθην δαπάνην. ἀναγνόντες μου τὰ γρά…
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