o.did.421
Ἄμπελος Σεραπιάδι τῇ ἀδελφῇ πλεῖστα χαίρειν· ἀφ' ὅτε ὠνείδικ…[…] περὶ τοῦ χιτῶνος […]αντι ἐγραψ[…] ἑτοιμακα[…] εἰρηκε[…] ερχομ[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144982
Letter from Ampelos to his sister Serapias about a tunic TM 144982Didymoi
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Fragment of a private letter on an ostracon from Didymoi, from Ampelos to his sister Serapias. After the greeting it mentions a reproach about a tunic and something written or prepared, but the rest is lost.
In English machine translation
Ampelos to Serapias his sister, very many greetings.
Since [you?] reproached […] about the tunic […] I wrote […]
[I have] prepared (?) […]
[he/I] said […]
coming […]
[…]
Didymoi was a Roman fort on the road from Koptos to Berenike in the Eastern Desert. "Sister" may be a term of affection rather than literal kinship.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Theotimos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.