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A private letter from a man whose name ends in -ion to Horion, asking him to care for a she-donkey he has sent, feeding her two choinikes of barley daily besides fodder, and sending 20 drachmas for the expenses. He also mentions a basket of onions sent via Kerdon and sends greetings.
A choinix is a small dry measure of roughly one litre. The word after 'onions' is unread, so the contents of the basket are not fully certain.
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.
[r] […]ιων Ὡρίωνι[…]ι […]… χαίρειν. πρὸ τῶν ὅλων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν. ……… πρόνοιαν ἡμῶν ποιῇ …… παρακληθεὶς προνόησαι ἧς σοι ἔπεμψα ὄνου, ὅπως, χωρὶς οὗ ἐὰν δαπανηθῇ χόρτου, καὶ ἄλλας καθʼ ἡμέραν αὐτῇ κριθῆς χοίνικας δύο χορηγήσῃς. ἔπεμψα δέ σοι ἐπὶ λόγῳ εἰς δαπάνην δραχμὰς εἴκο…
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