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o.did.436 Didymoi
Letters not Attached to a Group via HGV-meta
Letter reporting the detention of an apprentice who lost a pillow. Fragmentary letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, apparently addressed to a centurion. The writers report that they found and detained an apprentice who explained that he had halted because he had lost a pillow. machine translation
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TM 144997.
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- Letters not Attached to a Group HGV-meta Didymoi110
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]…[…]
… […] ἑκατονταρχ
γινώσκειν σε θέλομεν ὅτι παραγενόμενοι […]… εὕρομεν
τὸν μαθητὴν … . βόμενον.
κατέσχομεν οὖν αὐτὸν καὶ ἠ ρωτήσαμεν δι' ἣν αἰτίαν ἔσχασας; καὶ ἔφη ἡμῖν
ὅτι κερβικάριον ἀπολέσας
ἔσχασα.Translations (1)
[…] […]
[…] […] centurion(?)
We want you to know that when we arrived […] we found the apprentice […] (?).
So we detained him and asked: "For what reason did you stop (?)" And he told us: "Because I lost a pillow, I stopped."
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 144997 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.did;;436 tier-1
- HGV-Text 144997 tier-1
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