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Letter from Herakleides to Herakleides with instructions for brickmaking and threshing TM 27747OxyrhynchitesII

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A private letter from Herakleides to another Herakleides, apparently his estate agent, giving farm instructions: report on affairs at Pakerke, have 40,000 bricks made for the vineyard land and dikes, see to the threshing on the island, and lease out Perotheos to reliable tenants. It dates to the 2nd century AD and comes from the Oxyrhynchite nome.

In English machine translation

Herakleides to his dearest Herakleides, greetings. You did not tell me what was done by you about the (land? matter?) of Pakerke. For whatever the people of my brother Ammonion are doing, you ought to do the same. Take care to have bricks moulded for us, tens of thousands: on the dry vineyard land by the estate 20,000, and at the dikes 20,000. But see that you do not neglect the threshing of the island, and from now on lease out Perotheos to reliable people, so that we may be free of worry when the time comes. I pray for your health, dearest. Choiak 5. [verso] To Herakleides, his friend.

Pakerke and Perotheos appear to be names of plots or localities; a chersampelos is former vineyard land that has gone dry. The figure "two" for the dikes is understood as 20,000 bricks, following the preceding count in myriads.

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.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Oxyrhynchites

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