o.did.410
Μεσσαλῖνα[…] τῷ ἀδελφῷ καὶ κυρίῳ […] χαίρειν· ἐρωτῶ σε καὶ παρακαλῶ πέμψεις μοι […] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144971
Letter from Messalina to her brother asking him to send something TM 144971Didymoi
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Opening of a private letter on an ostracon from Didymoi, written by a woman named Messalina to a man she addresses as brother and lord. She begins a request asking him to send her something, but the rest is lost.
In English machine translation
Messalina […] to her brother and lord […], greetings.
I ask and beseech you, send me […]
[…]
The address "brother and lord" is a conventional courtesy and need not mean a blood relation. The ostracon belongs to a group associated with the soldier Philokles at the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Nemesous, Theanous and Other Contemporaries of Philokles). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.