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Letter of instructions to Apollonios about estate business and collections TM 9271Arsinoites

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A letter from a landowner or estate manager to Apollonios with instructions on farm business: pickling olives, delivering manure, paying a donkey-driver, finding a lessee for the allotment of Antenor, settling a debt to a temple, and collecting sums and building rents from various people. It was written in the Arsinoite nome during the reign of Diocletian, on Choiak 11.

In English machine translation

A[…]os to his dearest Apollonios, greetings. […] carefully the […] […] and as I instructed […] […] do; if it has been done […] […] of Apollonidion (?), pickle half an artaba of olives of Chairemon […] which you have […] […] if with the […] […] oil, Sarapis (?) […] having been asked (?) […] in the middle […] Do not neglect the decision about the security (?), do not neglect the manure for the other side; give the donkey-driver another (measure of) lentils, for he asked me many times, saying, 'I will serve in a manner worthy of us' in the farming of the allotment of Antenor. Do not neglect, if you find a useful farmer as lessee, do not neglect the farmer's debt to the temple, 6 (artabas) of wheat and 44 drachmas 3 obols. From Kapiton ask 20 drachmas, you will go to him; for freight ask 10 drachmas, from the ox-driver ask 16 drachmas, from the son of Tchanasis 6 drachmas; demand the rents of the buildings. The rest will be your concern. Farewell. Greet all your people. Year […] of Imperator Caesar Diocletian Augustus, Choiak 11.

The regnal year is illegible. The word translated 'security' (pistē) is uncertain in meaning here.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. 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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bgu.2.624

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Arsinoites

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