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Letter from Heroneinos, estate manager at Sathro, to his superior Alypios about canal work: his men will work on their own canal until the men from Taurinos arrive to work jointly on the new canal, and he asks Alypios to order river-workers to be assigned, since the villagers of Sathro are willing to pay so the work goes faster. Dated 7 July 260, from the Heroninos archive of Theadelphia.
The letter is dated Epeiph 13 of year 7 (7 July 260); the note on the verso, dated Thoth 1 of year 1 of Macrianus and Quietus (29 August 260), was added later, hence the two dates in the records. Phrontistes is the manager of a local unit of the Appianus estate; zygomata likely means work gangs or allotted sections.
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 - Heroneinos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] τῷ κυρίῳ μου Ἀλυπίωι παρὰ Ἡρωνείνου φροντιστοῦ Σαθρώ. οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Ταυρίνου παρε τῆσ…………ον μη…… ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐν τοσούτῳ … ἐργασόμεθα εἰς τὴν ἡμῶν διώρυγα ἕως ἂν καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ Ταυρίνου ἔλθωσιν ἵνα κοινῇ ἐργασόμεθα εἰς τὴν καινὴν διώρυγα ἐάν σου τῇ τύχῃ δόξῃ κελεῦσαι εὑρεθῆναι ημ…ν ποτα…
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