The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A private letter from Dionysios to Theon about farm work at Karanis in the early 2nd century AD. He asks that Fabius' animals be kept back until the 12th so they start grazing green fodder on the 13th, after the newly sown vegetable seed has been watered, and sends six bundles of charlock along with errands about pitch, a dovecote vessel and papyrus.
Chlorophagia is the seasonal feeding of animals on green fodder crops. The catalogue description has Theon asked to bring the charlock, but the Greek komisai normally means 'receive'. Several lines in the middle are illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Dionysios an Theon wegen landwirtschaftlicher Angelegenheiten). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
This text contains a letter from Dionysios to Theon concerning farm matters. Theon is urged by Dionysios to see to it that the cattle of Fabius remain where they are until the 12th of Tybi so that they may begin their pasture-feeding on the 13th. Dionysios points out that this wo…
Διονύσιος Θέωνι τῶι τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις ἐπάν σοι δόξῃ ἵνα τὰ κτήνη τοῦ Φαβίου παραμείνῃ εἰς τὴν ιβ ὅπως ἄρξωσι τῆς χλοροφαγίας τῇ ιγ. τοῦτο γὰρ ἔδοξέ σοι ἵνα καὶ τὸ κατατιθέμενον λαχανόσπερμον προκοπὴν σχῇ τῶν ποτισμῶν πρὸ χλοροφαγίας. κόμισαι λαψάνης δέσμας ἕξ . διε………
Spotted an error, a mis-mapped findspot, or have a suggestion? We read every note.