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Letter from Philippos to Heronianos about the sale of grain TM 31941unbekannt2. Hälfte III

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A private business letter from Philippos to Heronianos about grain owed by a certain Euphilos (400 artabas of wheat, barley and 200 artabas of olyra). Philippos has instructed his associate Deios to sell the grain together with Heronianos, sell the barley at 16 drachmas per artaba, and asks Heronianos to make sure he collects it.

In English machine translation

Philippos to his dearest Heronianos, greetings. Euphilos settled accounts with me for 400 artabas of wheat and […] artabas of barley, as I reported to you on another occasion too, and I think you are taking pains for us until you receive them. So I decided not to trouble you […] them […] So […] report (?) […] 1 artaba of wheat […] It was decided that […] there 200 artabas of olyra. So I instructed Deios, my associate (?), that together with you he should sell them and that you should transfer the price to Deios, and that he should sell the barley to you at 16 drachmas the artaba. But by all means make an effort to take delivery from the man, for I know your good sense. I pray for your health, dearest.

Olyra is an ancient husked grain, usually identified as emmer. The middle of the letter is badly damaged, so the details of the arrangement are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Philippos). 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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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 2. Hälfte III

Φίλιππος Ἡρωνιανῷ τῷ φιλτάτῳ χαίρειν. Εὔφιλος σύνηλλαξέν μοι πυροῦ ἀρτάβας υ καὶ κριθῆς ἀρτάβας […]καθὰ καὶ ἄλλοτέ σοι ἀπήγγειλα, καὶ νομίζω σπουδάζεις ἡμῖν ἔστʼ ἂν αὐτὰς ἀπολάβῃς. ἐσκεψάμην οὖν μὴ ὀχλεῖν σοι κ[…] […]ηνων αὐτὰ ἀνα[…] […]ενα. οὖν ἀγγέλη[…] […]βον π[…]ς… πυροῦ ἀρτά…