o.did.34
[… ? lines lost …] […]…ω[…] μονομάχων …[…] […]…ι ἀπὸ ὀγδόης […] […] εἰκάδος· πᾶν ποίησον διὰ τῶν δύο μονομάχων τῇ νουμηνίᾳ ψωμία ημεια ημιτον ἢ μέλλομεν δύο καταβῆναι.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144601
Letter fragment mentioning two monomachoi and bread supplies TM 144601Didymoi
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Fragment of a letter on an ostracon from the Roman desert fort of Didymoi in Egypt's Eastern Desert, mentioning two men called "monomachoi" (literally single combatants), dates from the eighth to the twentieth, and a supply of bread-morsels for the first of the month. The writer warns that otherwise the two of them will come down.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] of the gladiators (?) […]
[…] from the eighth […]
[…] of the twentieth; do everything
through the two gladiators (?)
on the first of the month, bread-morsels
[…] half (?), or we are going to come down, the two of us.
[…]
The term monomachoi (single combatants, gladiators) is unusual in this military setting and may denote a kind of soldier or guard. The words "ημεια ημιτον" are obscure and the translation of that line is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettres de soldats et de curateurs). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.