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o.did.418 Didymoi

Latin Letters: Claudius, Crescens and ‘Numosis’ via HGV-meta

Letter to Demetrous mentioning Epagathos and a key. Fragment of a Greek private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, addressed to a woman named Demetrous. The surviving lines mention a man named Epagathos, through whom something was sent, and a key. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 144979. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

ἀπόδος εἰς Διδύμους […]δις Δημητροῦτι […] χαίρειν […]… διὰ Ἐπαγάθου […]είωνος ποτε […] τὸ κλιδον […]… [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[Deliver] to Didymoi. […]dis to Demetrous, [...] greetings. […] through Epagathos […]eion once(?) […] the key […] […]

Connections

Found at Didymoi

Cross-references (3)

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