Business Letter
Business letter from Cornelius to his associate Theon: Cornelius made advance payments for vineyard work to Theon and demands reinbursement
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 31840
Letter from Cornelius to Theon about payments to vinedressers TM 31840unbekannt250 CE – 350 CE
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A business letter from Cornelius to his associate Theon. Cornelius explains that his accounts for the months of Tybi and Mecheir showed payments he had advanced to the vinedressers, which were to be repaid to him from the wine Theon manages, and he asks Theon to see to it. The verso preserves only the beginnings of lines.
In English machine translation
[recto]
Cornelius to his dearest Theon, greetings.
Since, in the accounts that I submitted for Tybi and Mecheir, not only the scribe but also everyone else noted the payments disbursed by me to the vinedressers as owed to me by you out of the wine that you manage, I am obliged to write to you, dearest, so that you may know and take care of this, so as to suffer no loss […]
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The verso survives only as the first letters of each line, so its content cannot be reconstructed. The end of the recto, about avoiding loss, is largely restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business Letter). 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.col.10.282
[r] Κορνήλιος Θέωνι τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. ἐπειδὴ ὧν ἐπέδωκα λόγων Τῦβι καὶ Μεχεὶρ ὁ γραμματεὺς οὐ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πᾶς ἄλλος ἐπέστελλεν τὰς ἐξοδιασθείσας ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ δόσεις τοῖς ἀμπελουργοῖς, ὡς ὀφειλούσας ὑπὸ σοῦ δίδοσθαί μοι οὗ χειρίζεις οἴνου, ἀναγκαίως ἐπιστέλλω σοί, φίλτατε, ἵνʼ ε…