One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144933

Letter about goods sent with Titus the donkey-driver TM 144933Didymoi

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Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert. The writer tells the recipient to collect from Titus the donkey-driver an artaba of wheat, a bed and a reed mat, and closes with greetings, dated Phamenoth 20.

In English machine translation

[… ? lines lost …] […] […] […] with me […] the donkey-driver […] litter […]. Receive from Titus the donkey-driver the artaba of wheat and the bed and the mat. For the rest, I pray that you are well. Farewell. Phamenoth 20.

The beginning is lost; 'lektike' may mean a litter or a bedding item. The psiathos is a reed or rush mat.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letters not Attached to a Group). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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

[… ? lines lost …] […]λη […]βης […] παρά μοι γε[…] ὀνηλάτης […]ε λεκτίκην 3-4…αζε. κόμισαι παρὰ Τίτου τοῦ ὀνηλάτου τὴν ἀρτάβην τοῦ σίτου καὶ τὸν κράβατον καὶ τὴν ψίαθον. τὰ δ’ ἄλλα εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν. ἔρρωσο. Φαμενωθ κ.