Letter from Philokles to Kapparis about salt, cabbage and Loukia TM 144942Didymoi

A private letter from Philokles to his "brother" Kapparis, found at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert. He sends greetings and prayers before the god Pan, mentions sending salt and cabbage, and begins news about a woman Loukia travelling from the Red Sea port of Myos Hormos about a girl before the text breaks off.

In English machine translation

Philokles is known from several letters at Didymoi and the Krokodilo dossier that seem to concern trafficking in girls (korasia) for prostitution along the desert route. A matium (half-matium here) is a dry measure; "brother" may be a term of friendship rather than kinship.

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.