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A business letter from Dorion and Dokimos to Herakleios and Hermeinos reporting that they took 35 workmen to an allotment of land but found little furrowing work possible because the floodwater had not yet receded. They propose using water-lifting devices, as Kornelios also advised, and ask for orders.
A kleros is an allotment of land, originally granted to a settler. Kēlōneia are swing-beam water-lifting devices (shadufs), here apparently proposed to drain the field.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Privatbrief). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Δωρίων καὶ Δόκιμος …[…]οι Ἡρακλείωι καὶ Ἑρμείνωι τοῖς τιμιωτάτοις χαίρειν. καθὼς ἐκελεύσατε διεβ…[…]εν εἰς τὸν κλῆρον σήμερον μετὰ ἐργατῶν ἀριθμῷ λε καὶ εὕρομεν ἡμας μόγις δυναμένους εὑρεῖν ἐργασίαν αὐλακισμοῦ πρὸς μόνον σήμερον, ἐπεὶ πλείονος ὀρυγῆς δεῖται ὁ κλῆρος τοῦ ὕδατος μή…
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