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Letter from Herakleides to Apollonios about payments to cultivators TM 11617Arsinoites (?)26. März 99

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A letter from Herakleides to Apollonios listing payments in drachmas made to several men, including for dung and building work, and instructing him to pay Petermouthis only once security is given through the secretary of the cultivators and the village elders. He also asks for a donkey to be sent so he can visit. Written 26 March AD 99, probably in the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Herakleides to his dearest Apollonios, greetings. I have sent you Petermouthis son of Syros, who has received 40 drachmas, and Diogas of Philagris, 132 drachmas, and Myops, 20 drachmas, and Saboulis, for dung, 35 drachmas, and building costs for Phatne(?), 9 drachmas; total 236 drachmas. If, then, Petermouthis together with his partner gives you security through the secretary of the cultivators and the elders of the revenue, after measuring his plot (?), pay in full according to the proportion due. But see that you give money to no one else. Farewell. Year 2 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus, Phamenoth 30. And send me a little donkey on the third, so that I may come down to you on the fourth, if you think fit. [verso] [Herakleides] to his dearest Apollonios.

The word rendered 'plot' (gyos) denotes a measured parcel of land; 'Phatne' may be a place name or mean 'manger'.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Herakleides an Apollonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.lips.1.106

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 26. März 99 · Arsinoites (?)

[r] Ἡρακλείδης Ἀπολλωνίωι τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι Πετερμοῦθιν Σύρου εἰληφότα δραχμὰς μ καὶ Διογᾶν Φιλαγριώτην δραχμὰς ρλβ καὶ Μύωπα δραχμὰς κ καὶ Σαβοῦλιν κόπτρων δραχμὰς λε καὶ οἰκοδόμητρα Φάτνης δραχμὰς θ γίνονται δραχμαὶ σλϛ. ἐὰν οὖν ὁ Πετερμοῦθις σὺν τῷ μετόχῳ ἀσφαλίζη…