p.flor.3.305
Φλαούιος Ἡράκλειος Φλαουίῳ Ἀρχίᾳ τῶι πατρὶ χαίρειν. τὸ πλοῖον ὡς ἔγραψάς μοι ἐναυλωσάμην δραχμῶν […] εὔχομαι δὲ πολλὰ ξύλα εὑρεθῆναι, ὥστε αὐτὸ γομῶσαι· ἔστιν γὰρ μέγα. καὶ γείνεται ἐν Βωοὺ ὄρθρου ὁ νομάρχης σήμερον [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 33131
Letter from Herakleios to his father Archias about chartering a boat for wood TM 33131HermopolitesIV
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Fourth-century letter from Flavius Herakleios to his father Flavius Archias, reporting that he has chartered a boat as instructed and hopes to find enough wood to fill it. He also mentions that the nomarch is arriving at Bōou early that day; the rest is lost. From the Hermopolite nome.
In English machine translation
Flavius Herakleios to Flavius Archias his father, greetings.
I have chartered the boat as you wrote to me, for […] drachmas. I pray that plenty of wood may be found, so as to load it fully, for it is large.
And the nomarch is coming to Bōou at dawn today
[…]
Bōou appears to be a local place name. The charter fee is lost, and the letter breaks off after a few lines.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettera di Herakleios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.