One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 110087

Letter of the farmer Dionysios about calves TM 110087Philadelphia (Arsinoites)Mitte III v.Chr.

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Fragmentary letter from Dionysios, a farmer, mentioning calves, a certain Artemidoros and an instruction to give something to Horos. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, mid-3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

[recto] Dionysios […] calf(?) […] in the […] calves […] of Artemidoros […] of a lamp […] immediately gave […] walking(?) […] send […] give to Horos […] [verso] From Dionysios, farmer

The catalogue title also suggests horses, perhaps reading the word on line 6 as referring to a pack or riding animal. The fragment is too damaged to confirm this.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Brief des Dionysios über Kälber und Pferde (?)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr. · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

[r] Διονύσιος[…] μοσχ[…]…[…] ἐν τ…α[…] μόσχους ε[…] Ἀρτεμιδώρου τ[…] λύχνου α…[…] εὐθὺς ἐδωκ […]πον βαδιστ[…] ἀποστειλ[…] δὸς Ὥρωι τ…[…] [v] παρὰ Διονυσίου γεωργοῦ