One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11145

Letter from Syros to Heroninos ordering fodder for the bearers' animals TM 11145Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268

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A letter from Syros to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia, telling him to give Didymos and his companions, who carry the letter, 200 bundles of hay and 3 artabas of barley for their animals. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

Syros to his dearest Heroninos, greetings. To those who deliver this letter of mine to you, Didymos and those with him, give for their animals 200 bundles of hay and 3 artabas of barley […] […]

Heroninos was the local manager (phrontistes) of the Appianus estate at Theadelphia. The end of the letter is lost.

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.

p.flor.2.258

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 249 - 268 · Theadelphia (Arsinoites)

Σύρος Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. τοῖς ἀναδιδοῦσί σοι ταῦτά μου τὰ γράμματα Διδύμῳ καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ δὸς ὥστε τοῖς κτήνεσι αὐτῶν χόρτου δέσμας διακοσίας καὶ κριθῆς ἀρτάβας τρεῖς …… [… ? lines lost …]