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A letter of recommendation from Maron to Heron asking him to welcome his dear friend Agathos, supply fodder, let him open and seal the wine-store, have the crop-buyer show him the produce in the field, and help him with whatever he needs. It dates to the 2nd century AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome.
The karpones was a buyer of standing crops or fruit harvest, a term with no exact English equivalent. Agathos seems to act as Maron's agent inspecting his estate, and his favourable report on return is the reward promised to Heron.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de recommandation à Hèrôn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Μάρων Ἥρωνι χαίρειν. Ἄγαθον ὄντα πάνυ μοι φίλον ὑπόδεξαι πάσῃ προθυμίᾳ καὶ χόρτον αὐτῷ παράστησον καὶ τὴν οἰνοθήκην ποίησον αὐτὸν ἀνοῖξαι καὶ αὐτὸς σημειωσάσθω καὶ ἐν ἀγρῷ δὲ γενόμενος ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐκεῖ παραστησάτω ὁ καρπώνης καὶ ἐν οἷς σου ἐὰν χρείαν ἔχῃ ὑπηρέτησον αὐτῷ ἵνα ἀνελθὼν…
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