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A business letter from Syros to Heroninos, manager of the Theadelphia estate, and to Dionysios, part of the Heroninos archive. If the calf given to Palas has been accepted, Dionysios is to go at once to Philoteris and bring back the replacement animal, on the orders of Alypios. Dated 14 November 257 at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
Alypios (spelled Alypis here) was the wealthy owner of the large estate that Heroninos managed at Theadelphia. The Greek 'phrontistes' means estate manager.
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 Ἡρωνίνῳ καὶ Διονυσίωι χαίρειν. ἐὰν μὲν ἦν ὁ μόσχος ὃν ἐκέλευσα δοθῆναι Παλᾷ εὐάρεστος αὐτῷ γενάμενος καὶ ἦν παρʼ αὐτῷ σὺ ὁ Διονύσιος γενοῦ ἐξαυτῆς εἰς Φιλωτερίδα καὶ τὸν ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ ἀνένεγκον τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκέλευσεν ὁ κύριός μου Ἀλύπις· πάνυ γὰρ αὐτοῦ χρῄζει ἐνθάδε. ἐρρῶσθαι…
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