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A private business letter from Herakleides to Turbon with instructions on agricultural matters: receiving grain and farm tools from someone, giving a young man 4 artabas of grain, sending him to Talei to work a reed-bed belonging to Chrysermos, paying the workers and putting the animals to work for three days. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome.
The name of the person bringing the grain and parts of the instructions are lost. A kalamia is a plantation of reeds, cultivated for use as stakes and building material.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Eraclide a Turbone). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἡρακλείδης Τούρβωνι χαίρειν. ἐὰν ο…[…]προσπίπτῃ πρός σε, δέξαι τὸν σῖτον παρʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰς ὕνις καὶ τὰ ἄροτρα καὶ τὰ ζυγόταυρα καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔχει ἀργαλεῖα· λαβὼν δὲ τὸν σῖτον παρʼ αὐτοῦ, παράλαβε ἐκεῖνον τὸν νεανίσκον, καὶ δὸς αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τοῦ σίτου ἀρτάβας δ …[…]…ην Μαροῦ εἰς Ταλεὶ…
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