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A short, badly damaged business letter from Syros to Heroninos, the estate manager, expressing surprise about a soldier named Philon who had been sent. It is dated 5 August 257 and belongs to the Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Fayum.
The address on the back names Horion, manager (phrontistes) of the Dionysias estate unit, rather than Heroninos, the addressee in the opening. The phrontistes was a local manager on the large Appianus estate.
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] Σύρος Ἡρωνείνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. θαυμάζω πῶς Φίλωνα τὸν στρατιώτην ὃν ἀπέστειλε …θεεν…… ἐπείγομεν … εὐθέως ε……ταλει …τηρησαι…επ…νοι χ…… αὐτοῦ ε……υν…… καὶ ἂν νῦν …κατω. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε. δ ἔτους Μεσορὴ ιβ [v] Ὡρίωνι φροντιστῇ Διονυσιάδος
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