Heron's letter : to Liberalis and Herakleia.
Heron writes to his brother and sister.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31370
Letter from Heron to his siblings Libelarios and Herakleia TM 31370Tebtynis ? (Arsinoites, Ägypten)3rd century A.D.
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A private letter from Heron, a former or serving gymnasiarch, to his siblings Libelarios and Herakleia, dealing with copies of receipts, an account of monthly payments to be sent to Alexandria, and items such as linen garments, handkerchiefs and tunics, followed by greetings to family and friends. It dates to the 3rd century AD and probably comes from Tebtynis.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Heron to Libelarios the most honoured and to Herakleia, his siblings, very many greetings. […]
our intention being similar […]
until the good Lucretius arrives and brings
from the receipts sent to me the copies
dated to Mesore 4. And do not act otherwise in Alexandria, nor […]
to suppose that Lucretius […]
by all means send off the account of the monthly payments quickly, so that he may forward the
letters together with Protarchos and […] to Alexandria. For I am already eager (?) […]
before your departure, accordingly […] send to me Sarapion […]
so that they may come within the […]
1. I sent you […]
[…] bringing to Geta also called Eudaimon […] and let not
my sweetest wife be grieved […]
[…] as much as […]
they are almost […]
linen garments, a handkerchief […] a handkerchief for Eudemos (?) […]
for Heroneinos […] a pair of sleeveless tunics […] for expenses 100 drachmas, I […]
[…] and of the […] your candlesticks (?) […]
Myrismos. Greet […]
from me the […] of my sweetest daughter. […] I greet also […] by name and […]
my Thintithioˉs (?) […]
and Protarchos […]
Diogenes […]
and Moros […]
by name […]
[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
[verso]
To Libelarios and Herakleia, siblings, from Heron, gymnasiarch
The right side of the letter is lost, so much of the restored wording is conjectural. The brother's name appears as Libelarios in the text but as Liberalios or Liberalis in the catalogue records.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief: Heron an seine Geschwister Liberalios und Herakleia). 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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