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Memorandum of errands from Ioannes to Anastasios at Antinoopolis TM 32722unbekanntIV - V

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A memorandum of instructions from Ioannes to his 'brother' Anastasios, who is travelling to Antinoopolis. It lists errands: petitioning the count Menas about an estate advance, settling a purchase with Leilos for 4 solidi, evicting the tenant farmer Papnouthis, buying cheeses, assisting a relative of an official, and sending beans for the fasts, honey, greens and sandals.

In English machine translation

Memorandum from me, Ioannes, to my master and brother Anastasios: that, on arriving with God's help at Antinoou, you should entreat my master the most magnificent count Menas about the advance payment of the estate of Apammon and about the island of the estate; and if his magnificence should wish it of me, also 200 xestai of radish oil. That you should also speak with the lord Theophilos about Leilos, and hand over to him the 4 solidi and receive the deeds of sale from Leilos; but if he wants more than the 4 solidi, let the […] of Kollouthos swear before Victor, the brother of the aforementioned Leilos, and let him receive the remainder. That you should eject Papnouthis the farmer from my estate and demand from him everything contained in his lease, and the advance which he holds, and the reeds from the eighth to the eleventh (indiction). That with God's help you should buy me 300 flat cheeses and 2 artabas of […]. That you should seek out the lord […] of the sister of the lord Neilos, the scriniarius of the count's office, and give him the letters of his mother; and if he should have need of up to 10 solidi, be so good as to provide them to him and receive a note in his own hand from him, and send it to me so that he may receive them and I will send them to you. That you should send me the one artaba of beans for the fasts, and good lampsana (charlock), and the honey, and good sandals.

A hypomnestikon is a written list of instructions given to an agent or traveller. The reference to 'the eighth to the eleventh' presumably means indiction years; some passages are damaged and their sense uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum). 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 · IV - V

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