Fragment of a letter addressed to Heroninos, manager (phrontistes) of an estate unit, mentioning Ammonios as steward, the current 13th year, remaining barley and estates. It belongs to the mid-3rd-century AD Heroninos archive from Theadelphia in the Arsinoite nome.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[… 3 lines lost …]
[…] to Ammonios, the steward (?) […]
[… 4 lines lost …]
[…] of the current 13th year
[… 1 line lost …]
[To Heroninos], manager, at Sathros (?)
[verso]
[… ? lines lost …]
[…]
[…]ammon […]
[…] to the others' […]
[…] of which are […]
two […]
of the other […]
⟦just as⟧ not of the […]
⟦and⟧ through the […]
[…]mata in […]
remaining barley […]
and the estates […]
cares (?) […]
which they have […]
therefore five […]
The recipient's name Heroninos is restored; 'Sathroi' after his title may be a place or estate name. The phrontistes was a local manager of a unit of the large Appianus estate.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Frammento di lettera ad Heroninos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.