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A private letter from Herakleides to Tourbon with instructions about building work: Tourbon is to send a carpenter by night, send 8 jars of oil, collect thirty drachmas from Patron the linen-seller and buy vegetable seeds. It comes from Tebtynis in the Arsinoite nome and dates to the 2nd-3rd century AD.
The opening verb συμπροστρέψω is unusual and its exact sense is uncertain. The word τετρωκυίας (perhaps 'worn out' or 'wounded') survives in a damaged context.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Eraclide). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Ἡρακλείδης Τούρβωνι χαίρειν. συμπροστρέψω τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ποιῆσαι· μὴ οὖν ἀμελήσῃς ὧν χρείαν ἔχω, ἀλλὰ σπούδασον εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν τοῦ τέκτονος ἵνα μοι νυκτὸς αὐτὸν πέμψῃς, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἐξαρκεῖ μόνος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ. κεράμια η ἐλαίου πέμψον ἡμῖν. προσελθὲ Πάτρωνα λινοπώλην καὶ δέξαι παρʼ αὐτ…
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