One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144913

Fragmentary letter with greetings to Sextilius and Abisaios TM 144913Didymoi

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End of a fragmentary Greek letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. After a request not to act otherwise, the writer sends greetings to Sextilius, Abisaios and others, and passes on greetings to the recipient.

In English machine translation

[… lines lost …] […] […] […] [So do not] do otherwise […] I greet Sextilius […] Abisaios and D[…] and all the […] I greet Ka[…] E[…] greets you Greet the brother of Pedoukes (?) […] Farewell […]

The catalogue groups this ostracon with texts linked to Gaius and Longinus. The name read as Pedoukes is partly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Gaii and Longini: Unclassified). 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.352

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

[… ? lines lost …] κα[…] …[…]…ον[…] ν[…]…ηκον[…] μὴ οὖν ἄλλως ποιήσει…[…] ἀσπάζομαι Σεξτίλιον […] Ἀβισάιον καὶ Δ[…] καὶ πάντας τοὺς […] ἀσπάζομαι Κα…[…] ἀσπάζεταί σε Ε[…] ἀσπάζου τὸν ἀδελφὸν Πεδουκέου ἐρρω[…]