Two letters of Philokles to Sknips and Kapparis about food and oil TM 144944Didymoi

An ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert carrying two short letters by Philokles. In the first he tells his sister Sknips to collect from Potamion a bag of onions, leeks, cabbage and salted fish; in the second he tells his brother Kapparis that oil he sent for has not yet arrived and promises him a half-chous once it does.

In English machine translation

Mation, kabation and chous are small measures or containers with no exact English equivalent; pallion is an uncertain term for a quantity of leeks. The courier's name appears as both Potamion and Potamon.

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