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Letter from Didymos to Apollonios on vineyard wine output and travel TM 30676unbekanntIII

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A letter from Didymos to Apollon (Apollonios) reporting the wine output of the vineyard of Dionysos in various jar types, and the dispatch of animals with workmen. He asks how he and a little girl are to travel upriver, by boat or with animals sent to meet them.

In English machine translation

To the most esteemed Apollon, Didymos, greetings. The yield (?) of the vineyard of Dionysos, all together from the 6 small wine-vats: 5132 four-chous jars, 121 double jars, 37 two-chous jars, 8 light foreign jars, into which were poured altogether 211 measures, and of the allowance (?) altogether 123 measures; total for the whole vineyard 5464. I sent the animals today with the carpenter and Sotas and the builder, when the heating of the kiln (?) was finished, having also given him his wages as she wrote to me. See to how we are to come up, unless you want us to come up with the animals we have here. For if we find a boat which the little one can board, we are coming up; but if you wish to send the animals to us to the place of Lagas so that we may travel by night and come up, only do not leave us; the small boat which I sent up with Isidoros, for the little one did not dare to board there. I pray for your health. [verso] To the most esteemed Apollonios, Didymos.

The addressee is called Apollon in the text and Apollonios on the back. Hē mikē ('the little one') is probably a child; the syntax of the closing sentence about the small boat (paktōn) is awkward in the original.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter of Didymus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.17.2153

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

[r] τῷ ἀξιολογωτάτῳ Ἀπόλλωνι Δίδυμος χαίρειν. ῥύσις χωρίου Διονύσου ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ τῶν ληνιδίων ϛ τετράχοα Ερλβ, διπλᾶ ρκα, δίχοα λζ, ξενικόκουφα ἀριθμῷ η, εἰς ἃ κατηνγίσθη ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ μέτρα σια καὶ διαταγῆς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ μέτρα ρκγ, γίνεται ἐπὶ τοῦ ὅλου χωρίου Ευξδ. τὰ κτήνη ἀπέστειλα…