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Letter from Philokles to Auizinas about bundles of cabbage TM 144952Didymoi

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A short private letter from Philokles to Auizinas announcing a delivery of bundles of cabbage by donkey-drivers and explaining how they are to be shared with Julius and Timotheos. It comes from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.

In English machine translation

Philokles to Auizinas, most honoured, very many greetings. Receive from the donkey-drivers three bundles of cabbage, of which you will give one to Julius and one to Timotheos and one to yourself, out of the three. Receive also another one, which makes four, of which you will take two for yourself and one for Julius and one for Timotheos, as you instructed me. Greet Julius and Timotheos and all those with us.

Philokles is a known correspondent at Didymoi who sent many letters about supplies of vegetables and other goods. The addressee's name is partly restored.

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 Various Persons (Other than Kapparis and Sknips)). 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

Φιλοκλῆς Ἀυιζινα τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· κόμισαι ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνηλατῶν δέσμας κράμβης τρεῖς ὧν δώσεις Ἰουλίῳ μίαν καὶ Τιμοθέῳ μίαν καί σοι μίαν ἐκ τῶν τριῶν. κόμισαι καὶ ἄλλην μίαν , αἳ γίνονται τέσσαρες ὧν σοι λήμψῃ δύο καὶ Ἰουλίῳ μίαν καὶ Τιμοθέῳ μίαν καθώς μοι ἐνετείλου. ἀσπά…