One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144630

List of names, some with numbers, from Didymoi TM 144630Didymoi

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An ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert listing personal names, several preceded by numbers. Many of the names are Thracian or Dacian (such as Dezibalos and Diourpliz), alongside Egyptian and Greek ones, probably soldiers or others stationed at the fort.

In English machine translation

3 Diernais 12 Tiai; 11 Diourpliz ⟦… Diou…chos⟧ 1 Dezibalos 2 Zourai … Auizina 5 Potamon Hertosis Didymion Papeiris Antistis Dadas

The numbers before the names are Greek numeral letters whose purpose (quantities, sequence or days) is not stated. One line was deleted by the scribe.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Listes de noms). 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.did.64

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Didymoi

γ Διερναις ιβ Τιαι ια Διουρπλιζ α Δεζίβαλος β Ζουραι … Ἀυιζινα ε Ποτάμων Ἕρτωσις Διδυμίων Παπείρις Ἀντίστις Δαδας