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Letter from Syros to Heroninos ordering delivery of wine to a produce buyer TM 11140Theadelphia (Arsinoites)7. Sept. 259

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A business letter in the Heroninos archive in which Syros instructs Heroninos, estate manager at Theadelphia, to deliver 16 monochora of wine to Heronas, buyer of the produce of the Spartianos estate, who pays through the bank. Heroninos is also to pay 100 drachmas to the manager Silvanos and report which estate supplied the wine. Dated 7 September 259.

In English machine translation

[verso] Syros to Heroninos, his dearest, greetings. Hand over to Heronas, fruit-buyer of the Spartianos estate, the price being paid by him through the bank to Silvanos the manager, 16 single monochora of wine from the readier stock, the monochoron being reckoned to him at the current price of the estate. And from this pay to Silvanos the manager 100 drachmas, total 100 drachmas, and let me know from which estate you handed it over to him. I pray for your health, dearest. Year 7, Thoth 9. (Note:) He showed that it was given to him from the estate of Chrysochoos. [recto]

A monochoron is a single-measure wine jar; a karponēs is a buyer of an estate's crop. The last line is a note added later recording the estate from which the wine came.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 7. Sept. 259 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

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