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Letter from Ischyrion to Antoninus about wine and fish sauce shipments TM 28200ArsinoitesII - III

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A private letter from Ischyrion to Antoninus reporting that he has sent three Knidian jars of wine via Herakleides and asking Antoninus to send someone to Moithymis to collect them. He promises to send the remaining goods and jars of fish sauce by donkey-driver once he finds a donkey. It comes from the Arsinoite nome, 2nd-3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Ischyrion to the most honoured Antoninus, greetings. I have sent you through Herakleides, the brother of Chairemon, formerly secretary in Bakchias, of Moithymis (?), three Knidian jars of the wine. So send to Moithymis someone who can receive them from him; for Dameas was not able to receive them because he did not have a donkey. And the rest and the jars of fish sauce, if I find a donkey, I will send without worry through the donkey-driver. I pray for your health, dearest, and prosperity with all your household. [verso] To Antoninus from Ischyrion.

"Knidia" are jars of the Knidian type, used as a measure of wine; "garia" are jars of garum (fish sauce). Moithymis is a village in the Arsinoite nome.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Ischyrionis ad Antoninum epistula). 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 - III · Arsinoites

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