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Fragmentary letter to Heroninos mentioning Alexandria TM 11152Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268

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Fragmentary letter addressed to Heroninos, the estate manager at Theadelphia in the Fayum, and another person, from the Heroninos archive of the mid-3rd century AD. Only scattered phrases survive, mentioning goodwill, the gods permitting, writing briefly, Alexandria and a period of five days.

In English machine translation

[…] to Heroninos and […], greetings. […] but special […] of goodwill had […] sufficiently […] unholy […] the gods permitting […] in her presence […] may suppose that I […] have written, but […] of the briefest […]. And I considered […] of all […] to happen to be […] serving […] we have found (?) […] having obtained […] in Alexandria […] five days […] sent up (?) […] [… lines lost …]

The sender is unknown; the letter belongs to the archive of Heroninos, manager of a unit of the Appianus estate. Its elevated vocabulary suggests a more formal letter than usual in the archive.

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.

p.flor.2.268

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

[…]Ἡρωνείνῳ καὶ […]χαίρειν. […] ἐξαίρετος δὲ […] εὐνοίας ἐσχη[…]… ἱκανῶς ἀνη[…]ενοις ἀνοσίους […]ψω θεῶν ἐπιτρεπόντων[…] ἐπὶ παρούσης αὐτῆς […]ὑπολάβηταί με […]γεγραφέναι ἀλλα […]ν βραχυτάτων ε[…]αν. ἡγησάμην δὲ […]…ειαν πάντων […]…τον τυγχάνειν […]εσεως ὑπηρετῶν […]κατειλήφαμεν …