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A business letter from Chairemon to Diogenes, probably an estate manager reporting on farm work. He asks for two yokes of oxen for an idle water-wheel and reports on manuring, irrigation, vegetable seed, and a shipment of jars of wine to Heron, with an accounting of the yield of the wine-presses. Written in Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.
The meaning of 'zeuktērias' (teams of yoked animals) and of 'leia' (perhaps a type or measure of produce) is uncertain; the middle of the letter is damaged and its sense is unclear.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Chaeremon to Diogenes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Χαιρήμων Διογένῃ τῷ τιμιωτάτωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις πέμψεις ἡμῖν ζευκτηρίας μηχανῇ δύο ἐπεὶ ἡ μηχανὴ τὸ ἐν τῷ κλήρῳ καταργεῖται. ἐξέβησαν τοὺς τόπους τοῦ κλήρου η. ἐξαφέθη εἰς τὴν βασιλικὴν Φιλίσκου θ. περὶ τοῦ κόπρου ἀποτέτακται Διονύσις, ἐζήτησα ἄλλου. περὶ τοῦ ποτισμοῦ τοῦ κτή…
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