o.did.43
[…] ὑποτύραννος Βαρβάρων […]ναρίῳ. καλῶς ποιήσεις […]ς ὄνοις μου ἐπιμελοῦ […]…ι οὖν ἔχῃς κριθὴν […]…ποιησας […] ἔπεμψα πρὸς […]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144609
Letter from a hypotyrannos of the Barbarians about donkeys and barley TM 144609Didymoi (Ägypten)ca. 264
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Fragment of a letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, written around AD 264 by or naming a 'hypotyrannos of the Barbarians'. The writer asks the recipient, whose name ends in -narios, to look after his donkeys and mentions barley.
In English machine translation
[…] hypotyrannos of the Barbarians
[…] to […]narios. You will do well
[…] take care of my donkeys
[…] so that you have barley
[…] having done […]
[…] I sent to
[…]
Hypotyrannos, literally 'sub-chieftain', seems to be a title of a subordinate leader among the desert peoples (the 'Barbarians'), probably nomads such as the Blemmyes. The ostracon is held in the archaeological storeroom at Qift.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Un hypotyrannos des Barbares). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.