p.flor.2.266
[… ? lines lost …] […]ψ…ας δεκα…[…]υν[…] […]εγνων εἶναι εισ…την[…] […]… καιριμωτέρων οἰναρίων […]…ν διασταλῆναι ἐκέλευσα […]θεν ἑκατὸν μονόχωρα […]αντα τίμησον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι […] Ἡρωνείνῳ φροντιστῇ […] […] Φαῶφι[…]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11150
Letter to Heroninos about setting aside jars of wine TM 11150Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268
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Fragment of a letter from an unknown sender to Heroninos, estate manager at Theadelphia, concerning wine: the writer ordered some better wines to be set apart and mentions one hundred single-measure jars. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] ten (?) […]
[…] I learned that it was […]
[…] of the more seasonable (?) wines
[…] I ordered to be set apart
[…] one hundred single-measure jars (monochora)
[…] value (?) […]
I pray for your health […]
(Address) To Heroninos, manager […]
[…] Phaophi […]
Heroninos was the phrontistes (local manager) of the Theadelphia unit of the Appianus estate. A monochoron is a wine jar holding one chous; the word 'kairimoteron' is uncertain in meaning.
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.