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Letter from Heron about selling dates and barley and sending produce TM 28893unbekanntII

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A private business letter from Heron to a man named Kalout[…], instructing him about farm produce: sending oil, wine, wood and bread before the twentieth of the month, and selling dates and barley at no less than 8 drachmas per artaba to pay for ropes. Heron also complains that he was not told about dealings with Chairemon son of Isas. It dates to the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto, column 1] […] now let him bring (?). We arranged […] to send to you […] let him follow up (?) […] to you, as I think […] ⟦of the fruit-dealer (?)⟧ […] to make progress […] to us and also the brother of the wife of Kastor, of this crop […] ask the same man [column 2] […] to be completed. What you did with Chairemon son of Isas you did not tell me, although I instructed you face to face to find out and inform me quickly. The oil left over from the olives, and 4 double jars of wine and […] wood and loaves, send to us before the twentieth. The dates, if they sell them […] having asked, sell them all at not less than 8 drachmas per artaba, so that it may go towards the price of ropes. From […]orbas the priest Farewell. Ask for 6 artabas of barley. If the artaba sells for 8 drachmas, sell, so that likewise it may go towards the ropes. Farewell. But if not [margin] […] [verso] Deliver to Kalout[…] from Heron.

The recipient's name on the address is only partly preserved. 'Dichora' are double-sized wine jars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Heron). 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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p.muench.3.1.121

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

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