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A short business letter from Tryphon to Eirenaios, part of the Heroninos archive of the Appianus estate, instructing him to record as received and spent 20 artabas of wheat released by Heron the kosmetes at the property of Taurinos. Written at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome on 27 February 258.
The kosmetes was a municipal magistrate. The verbs 'enter as receipt' and 'charge as expenditure' are estate accounting terms for booking the grain in and out of the accounts.
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 - Tryphon). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Τρύφων Εἰρηναίῳ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. τὰς ἀπολυθείσας μοι ὑπὸ Ἥρωνος τοῦ κοσμητοῦ πυροῦ ἀρτάβας εἴκοσι ἐπεὶ ἐν τῇ Ταυρινου ἐδόθησαν λημμάτισον καὶ ἀνάλωσόν μοι ἐπὶ τῆς τρίτης τοῦ Φαμενὼθ, ἂν δὲ καὶ ἐδόθησαν. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι φίλτατε. ἔτους ε Φαμενὼθ γ
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