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Letter from Aphrodisios to Harpalos about irrigation and harvest arrangements TM 28916unbekanntII

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A private letter of the 2nd century AD from Aphrodisios to Harpalos, giving instructions on farm work. He scolds Harpalos for neglecting the irrigation of certain plots and gives orders about buying and preparing wheat depending on when he must come for the harvest in Pachon or Pauni.

In English machine translation

Aphrodisios to Harpalos, greetings. I left you in good health, thanks to the gods. Did you take care about what I told you, about the irrigation of Hareus, to irrigate it together with the high (lands), did you take care or not? But you neglected it. He is not going to […] me. But also about the other things I told you not to neglect, whether the large foothill lands needed irrigation. I shall stay. Whether you are in the city or not, may it go well (?). And about the north (land), whether it is going to be irrigated, take care about it and about the other matters which I told you to do; do them yourself. If I need to come in on the 20th of Pachon because of the harvest, buy me 1 artaba of wheat for grinding and mix it, taking an equal amount, and take it out on the 15th of Pachon. But if I am not needed until the 20th, but on the 4th of Pauni, take out the little loaves (?) on the 30th of Pachon […] which you see. And make a drying (?) for the 100 arouras at the (land) of Hareus and another at the (land) of Ps[…] for the remaining […] but […] chaff […] do not neglect […] [margin] If you do not find Herakleides the son […] the wood […]

Hareus and Ps[…] appear to be names of estates or plots; 'artidia' (little loaves?) and 'psygmos' (drying, perhaps of grain or land) are uncertain terms.

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 Aphrodisius to Harpalus). 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.oslo.3.155

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

[ctr] Ἀφροδίσιος Ἁρπάλῳ χαίρειν. ἐξῆλθα ἀπὸ σοῦ κομψῶς ἐσχηκώς, χάρις θεοῖς. εἰ ἐμέλησέ σοι περὶ ὧν σοι εἶπον, περὶ τοῦ ποτισμοῦ Ἁρεῦτος μετὰ τῶν ὑψηλῶν αὐτὸν ποτίσαι, εἰ ἐμέλησέ σοι ἢ οὔ; ἀλλὰ ἠμέλησας αὐτοῦ. οὐ μέλλει με…ιν. ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων εἶπόν σοι μὴ ἀμελεῖν, εἰ χρεί…