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Letter from Koitonikos to Heron about deposited goods and tunics TM 28956Arsinoites (?)II

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A private letter from Koitonikos to Heron, who holds goods on deposit for him, asking him to recover his tunics from a woman before letting her leave, to help Hermas sell 500 bundles of hay, and to send news about some carpenters. It dates to the 2nd century AD, probably from the Arsinoite nome.

In English machine translation

[recto] Koitonikos to Heron, greetings. If you are returning what you hold on deposit, do as I told you face to face, and demand back my tunics, or hold her (?) to it as she says, until she buys cloaks herself and you recover my things. Introduce (me?) to Hermas when he comes down, until he sells 500 bundles of hay at the current price. About the carpenters: if they come up, send me word so that I may know. See to it, then, that you do not let her move until you recover my tunics; for I do not wish to speak of all that she did to me. Farewell. Hadrianos 25. [verso] […] Deliver to Heron from Koitonikos.

Hadrianos was a month name in the Roman calendar of Egypt, corresponding to Choiak; the letter is dated to its 25th day. The woman referred to is not named in the letter.

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 Koitônikos à Hérôn). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Arsinoites (?)

[r] Κοιτωνικὸς Ἥρωνι χαίρειν. ἐὰν ἀποδιδοῖς ἃ ἔχεις ἐν παραθήκῃ ὡς εἶπά σοι κατʼ ὄψιν οὕτως ποίει καὶ τοὺς κιθῶνάς μου ἀπαίτησον ἢ στῆσον ὡς λέγει ἕως ἂν ἀγοράσῃ αὐτὴ ἱμάτια καὶ τὰ ἐμὰ ἀπολάβῃς· σύστα Ἑρμᾷ κατελθόντι ἕως ἂν πωλήσῃ πεντακοσίας δέσμας χόρτου τῆς οὔσης τιμῆς· περὶ τ…