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A private letter of the 2nd century AD to a certain Heronianos reporting on the state of his farmland: none of his allotments has been sown, and the writer describes irrigating with a water-machine and the affairs of Heronianos' brother. Horion sends greetings.
The papyrus carries two letters; this is the first. The "machine" is probably a water-lifting device such as a saqiya used for irrigation.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Zwei Briefe). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]Ἡρωνιανῷ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ εὐτυχεῖν, ὡς γράφεις. τῶν δέ σου κληρίων οὐδὲ ἡ πολλοστὴ μερὶς ἐσπάρη. ὁ ἀδελφός σου οὔτε τὰ τοῦ σου ἀμπελῶνος ἀρουρίδια …[…] […]χιν ἅμα Ἡρωνιανὸς ὁ σὸς […] […] τὰ ἐμοὶ ὑπάρχοντα οὐδ[…] […]πάντων τῶν ἔργων οὐ…
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