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Letter from Julia to her mother Sknips TM 144947Didymoi

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A private letter on an ostracon from Julia to her mother Sknips at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert. Julia makes a prayer for her mother before Aphrodite, mentions sending a kollyra loaf, says she longs to see her, and sends greetings to her father and several men, including a vexillarius.

In English machine translation

Julia to Sknips her mother and lady, greetings. I make your obeisance before the lady Aphrodite […] to Korkodilo (?) I greet […] Hegemonis to my […] I sent you a kollyra-loaf from the […] it will be your concern (?); if I complete […] I will come down (?) to you; for I long to see you, since I am also in a bad way (?). Greet my father and Hertosis and Sabinus and Antonius the Syrian and Antonius the vexillarius and Potamion and Apollos and Munatius and Privatus.

A kollyra is a type of small bread roll or cake; a vexillarius was a Roman soldier serving in a detachment (vexillatio) or as standard-bearer. Korkodilo is probably a nearby desert station.

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.

DDbDP-text Full record →

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

Ἰουλία Σκνιπὶ τῇ μητρὶ χαίρειν καὶ κυρίᾳ. τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τῇ κυρίᾳ Ἀφροδίτῃ […] εἰς Κορκοδιλὼ ἀσπάζο[…] Ἡγεμονίδα εἰς τὸ ἐμόν […] ἔπεμψά σοι κολλούραν ἐκ τοῦ […]…[…] σοι μελήσει ἂν πληρώσω …[…]βῶ πρὸς σέ · ἐπιθυμῶ σε γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὅτι καὶ ἀσχημονῶ ἀσπάζου τὸν πατέρα καὶ Ἕ…