o.did.39
[… ? lines lost …] …[…] τριακάδι. ἀξιῶ …[…] κιβάρια πέμψαι μὴ …[…] ὅτε ἐνγὺς ἐσμεν τοῦ προθῇ τὸ ἔργον. παρὰ Μεμνόνος κόψαι κουράτορος πραισιδίου Διδύμου. δι βασσος ἱππεὺς Παλμυρηνὸς ἀνέβη εἰς Ἀφροδίτην μετὰ Κλασσικοῦ Θωθ β.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144606
Letter of Memnon, curator of Didymoi, requesting rations and reporting a rider's movement TM 144606DidymoiIII
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Fragmentary letter or report from Memnon, curator of the Roman fort (praesidium) of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, asking for rations to be sent for work in progress and reporting that a Palmyrene cavalryman went up to Aphrodite with Klassikos on Thoth 2. Third century AD.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] on the 30th. I ask […]
to send rations, not […]
since we are near (?) [for] the work to be set forth (?). From Memnon
to cut (?)
curator of the praesidium of Didymoi. Dibassos (?)
a Palmyrene cavalryman, went up to Aphrodite with Klassikos on Thoth 2.
A curator (kourator) was the soldier in charge of a desert fort. The word 'to cut' appears to be an interlinear or misplaced addition, and the reading of the cavalryman's name (Dibassos?) 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.