no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon
o.claud.2.263 Mitte IIRaima
Lettre à Alexas et Orsenouphis via HGV-meta
Letter to Alexas and Orsenouphis about a delivery of cabbages. A private letter on an ostracon from someone and Ulpius to their 'brothers' Alexas and Orsenouphis, with greetings, prayers before Isis, and news that each is to receive a bundle of cabbages from Hierax. It mentions someone not yet arriving at Kaine and a matter involving a centurion, but the end is lost. It dates to the mid-2nd century AD and comes from Raima in the Eastern Desert. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 29683.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Lettre à Alexas et Orsenouphis HGV-meta RaimaMitte II
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]καὶ Οὔλπις Ἀλεξᾶτει
καὶ Ὀρσενούφι ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς
ἀδελφοῖς πλειστα χαίρειν. πρὸ
μὲν παντὸς εὔχομαι ὑμᾶς ὑγειαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν
ποιοῦμεν παρὰ τῇ κυρίᾳ Ἴσιδει.
κομίσασθε παρὰ Ἱέρακος ἕκαστος δέσμην καυλίων. περὶ τοῦ
[…]…του οὔπω ἥκι εἰς Καινήν
[…]… τὰ πεδία ἡμῶν.
γινώσκειν ὑμᾶς θέλω ὅτι ἐτελε[…]… κεντυρ[…] κατὰ τοῦ κιβα
[… 5 lines lost …]Translations (1)
[…] and Ulpius to Alexas and Orsenouphis, both their brothers, very many greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in good health, and we make your act of obeisance before the lady Isis.
Receive from Hierax, each of you, a bundle of cabbages. Concerning the […] he has not yet come to Kaine […] our fields.
I want you to know that […] centurion (?) […] against the […]
[… 5 lines lost …]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 29683 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;2;263 tier-1
- HGV-Text 29683 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 HGV-meta, TM-Text 29683 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 29683 (see that record)