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Ostracon letter from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, part of the correspondence of Philokles to Kapparis. The writer sends cabbages and vegetables via a cavalryman, complains that he gets no reply about earlier shipments of a cloak, sandals and vegetables, and explains why he sent a certain Sknips.
Trōxima are vegetables eaten raw, such as salad greens. The text breaks off at the end, and the writer's spelling is careless, with many letters supplied by the editor.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letters Sent by Philokles to Kapparis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[side convex] δέξαι οὖν παρὰ τοῦ ἱππέως δέσμας κράμβης γ καὶ τρωξίμων δέσμην· λοιπὸν οὖν ἀντιγράψεις μοι περὶ τοῦ σοι ἔπεμψα, εἰ ἔλαβες ἢ οὐκ ἔλαβες. ἔπεμψά σοι πάλλιον καὶ σανδάλια καὶ λάχανα πλεῖστα, καὶ οὐ γράφετέ μοι. [side concave] οἶδας ὅτι οὐκ ἔπεμψα Σκνῖπα χάριν ἀπαιδεύτο…
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