no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon
o.berenike.2.190 A.D. 50 - 75
Letter via APIS-papyrus
Fragmentary letter mentioning the quintana and Hikane. Fragmentary letter on an ostracon found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast. The writer mentions sending the quintana, a woman named Hikane who has passed by, his travelling, and assures the recipient that he is not negligent. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 89216.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Letter APIS-papyrus This document was discovered in a A.D. 50 - 75
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]…[…]
[…]…χω
[…] χαίρειν·
[…] τὴν σωτηρίαν
[…]… τὴν κουιντάναν ἀποστῖλαι
[…] παρῆλθε ἡ Ἱκάνη […] πωρεύωμαι
[…] ἄρτι διδουμ
[…]ελω οἶδες ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ἀμελής.Translations (1)
[…] […]
[…] …cho
[…] greetings.
[…] the safety
[…] to send the quintana
[…] Hikane has passed by […] I am travelling (?)
[…] just now (?) […]
[…] you know that I am not negligent.
Connections
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 89216 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.berenike;2;190 tier-1
- HGV-Text 89216 tier-1
Similar inscriptions · by content embedding
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.
- Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
- date — from APIS-papyrus, TM-Text 89216 (see that record)
- find site — from APIS-papyrus, TM-Text 89216 (see that record)
- find point — from APIS-papyrus, TM-Text 89216 (see that record)