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o.did.396 Didymoi

Letters Written in Philokles' Hand but without a Prescript via HGV-meta

Fragment of a letter mentioning an ostrich and a bundle. Fragment of a letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, written in the hand of Philokles. The writer apparently mentions catching something, an ostrich, and promises to send the addressee something, perhaps a bundle. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 144957. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] […]ινα ἂν πιάσω […] στρουθοκαμηλ[…]…ει καμηλο […]λιν πέμψω σοι […]… δέσμην […]…[…]…ελ […]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[...] [...] ... [...] [...] so that if I catch (?) [...] ostrich [...] ... camel (?) [...] I will send you [...] ... bundle [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] [...]

Connections

Found at Didymoi

Cross-references (3)

Similar inscriptions · by content embedding

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