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o.did.431 Didymoi

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Letter mentioning the fort's dogs and a puppy. Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert. The writer asks for vegetables to be sent and tells how the fort's dogs followed him as he rode down on his horse and then turned back, except for one, and mentions a puppy he had raised that someone tied up. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 144992. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…] … […]…σασ[…]π[…]ε…[…] […]εντε.κ…[…]…σμε παρε… […] πέμψον μοι λάχαν…εμ… ἔχοντος …[…] […]ν πέμψω. ἀποδώσω δὲ πάντα περὶ πάντων. ἐμοῦ μετὰ τοῦ ἵππου μου κατερχομένου συνηκολούθησαν οἱ κύνες τοῦ πραισιδίου καὶ ἀνέκαμψαν πλὴν […]…μεν πυρροβαδίου· ἑτέρου δὲ σκύλακος […]υτω ἐτετραφήκειν· λοιπὸν παρακληθεὶς […]…ητις αὐτὸν ἔδησεν τῶν ἐκεῖ. ἐὰν δὲ […]θη γ’ ἐρχομένου […]…ψον [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] … […] … […] […] […] […] … […] … me … […] send me vegetables (?) … having … […] […] I will send. I will settle everything concerning everything. [When I] came down with my horse, the dogs of the fort followed [me] and turned back, except […] … of the red-footed one (?); but of another puppy […] I had raised; so, having been asked […] … tied him up, of those there. And if […] … coming […] … […]

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Found at Didymoi

Cross-references (3)

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