One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11154
Fragment of a letter to Heroninos about manure and the vintage TM 11154Theadelphia (Arsinoites)249 - 268
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End of a letter to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, from an unknown sender. The writer complains that manure should have been obtained before some event and rebukes the recipient in connection with the vintage at his estate. It belongs to the Heroninos archive of AD 249-268.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] … but he ought to have received the manure in advance, before […] to be helped. For since the vintage of the [vineyards(?)] at your place […] took place, you ought to be ashamed.
I pray for your health.
Part of the Heroninos archive, the papers of the Appianus estate at Theadelphia; the sender is unknown. The text is written on the back of another papyrus, and the start 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 - 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.2.271
[… ? lines lost …] […]… ὤφειλεν δὲ προειληφέναι κόπρον πρὶν […]θης ὠφεληθῆναι ὅτι γὰρ ἡ τρύγη τῶν παρά σοι […]ν ἐγένετο ὀφείλεις αἰδεῖσθαι. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι