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A letter from the Heroninos archive in which Geminos tells Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia, that the carpenter Hermes holds 160 drachmas of his for two eight-cubit axles. Because the garden of Theoxenis is idle, he urgently asks Heroninos to find an axle of 9 1/2 cubits that same day so he can send the ox-team to fetch it, and to keep an eye on the carpenter's money, noting a former price of 10 drachmas per cubit.
The axles were probably for a water-lifting wheel (saqiya) used to irrigate the garden; the cubit is a length measure of about half a metre. The sender's name is written Gemeinos, i.e. Geminus.
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 - Incerti o ignoti, ad Heronino). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[v] Ἡρωνείνῳ Γέμεινος χαίρειν. Ἑρμῆς τέκτων ἔχει μου δραχμὰς ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα εἰς ἄξονας δύο ὀκταπήχεις. ἐπεὶ οὖν χρῄζει ὁ κῆπος τῆς Θεοξενίδος χρῄζει ἄξονος πηχῶν ἐννέα ἡμίσους ἔργον μὲν ποίησον τάχα εὕρῃς μοι αὐτὸν ἐπεὶ ὁ κῆπος ἀργεῖ. ἀντίγραψόν μοι οὖν περὶ τούτου ἵνα πέμψω τὸ …
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