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Ostracon letter from Trimithis in the Great Oasis, addressed to Domnion, whom the sender calls 'my lord son'. It announces a delivery of jars of new wine-must and 8 matia of lupines carried by Psenpnouthes, and asks that empty jars be handed over and thirty empty jars be sent back through Sarapas.
The sender's name and the number of jars of must are illegible. The mation is a dry measure, and 'empty jars' (kouphа) are the returnable containers used for wine. Note: the number of must jars is lost. (Phamenoth is an Egyptian month.)
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[side convex] κυρίῳ μου υἱῷ Δομνίωνι … χαίρειν. κόμισαι διὰ Ψενπνούθου νέου γλεύκους κεράμια … καὶ ὑπὲρ Διοσκόρου θέρμων μάτια η. δὸς δὲ τὰ κοῦφα καὶ ἀπόστειλον πάλιν διὰ Σαραπᾶ κοῦφα κεράμια τριάκοντα …αλ…υς τῷ ἀδελφῷ Παυλ … Φαμενώθ [side concave] ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὐχομαι πολλοῖς χρό…
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