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o.did.443 Didymoi
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Letter from Melas (?) about spoiled vinegar, malt and a storeroom. Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, written by Melas (?) to a soldier of the fort. It reports that wormy vinegar he had left could not be sold, that a sealed jar of malt remains untouched, that a certain Andremon claimed something as a gift and was given two items, and asks for news about the addressee's storeroom. machine translation
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TM 145004.
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- Letters not Attached to a Group HGV-meta Didymoi125
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]μιωι μηλαοσ
[…] τοῦ πραισιδίου σου
[…]… ὄξους ἀφίωκας ἀπὸ
[…]ικίων μεστῶν σκωλήκων
καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτὸ ἠθέλησε ἀ γοράσαι, καὶ κεράμιον βύνης
κεῖται ὡς ἀφῆκας ἐσφραγισμένον. ἥκει Ἀνδρήμων λέγων
ὅτι κεχάρισταί μοι αὐτό.
ἔδωκα αὐτῷ τὰ δύο.
πέμψον μοι φάσιν πε ρὶ τῆς κέλλης σου
ὡς ἂν ἐν κρίσει ἐστί.
ἀσπαζ[…]
ρα […]Translations (1)
[…] to […]mios, Melas (?)
[…] of your praesidium
[…] of vinegar you left behind from
[…] full of worms
and no one wanted to buy it, and a jar of malt
lies sealed as you left it. Andremon came saying
that it had been given to him as a favour (?).
I gave him the two.
Send me word about your storeroom,
how it stands in the matter of the judgement (?).
Greet […]
[…]
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Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 145004 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.did;;443 tier-1
- HGV-Text 145004 tier-1
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