One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 116390

Note of donkey-loads delivered through the symmachos Esaias TM 116390Abu Mena1. Hälfte VII

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A short ostracon note recording donkey-loads delivered or transported through Esaias, a symmachos (courier or messenger). It comes from Abu Mena and dates to the first half of the 7th century AD.

In English machine translation

† Through Esaias, symmachos: donkey-loads … […] […] 1/2

A symmachos was a courier or armed messenger in late antique Egypt. The words following 'donkey-loads' are only partly legible and probably named the goods and the quantity, of which only a half survives.

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

o.abu.mina.191

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Hälfte VII · Abu Mena

† διὰ Ἠσαΐα συμμάχου ὀνικαὶ φοραὶ … οικ…ου νι…ου ἥμισυ

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Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · O.AbuMina object no. 8612 C198 · 1. Hälfte VII · Abu Mena