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o.berenike.2.204 A.D. 50 - 75

Letter via APIS-papyrus

Fragment of a letter mentioning a tunic. Fragment of a private letter on an ostracon found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast, dating to about AD 50-75. Only a closing instruction survives, urging the recipient not to do otherwise, along with a mention of a tunic. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 89230. 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

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]ην…[…] σετε σαν[…] το αμ…[…] οντα[…]… μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσετε· καὶ χιτώνα· μὴ ουδα…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] […] … […] […] … […] […] … […] […] … […] […] … […] So do not do otherwise; and a tunic; do not […] […] … […] […]

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