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A private letter on an ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert, in which the sender greets several men, makes the customary act of devotion for them before the god Pan, and tells them to collect vegetables (cabbage stalks and leeks) from a donkey-driver and share them out.
Pan, the god of desert roads, was the usual deity invoked in the 'proskynema' (act of obeisance) formula at the Eastern Desert forts. 'To both' sits oddly with the several addressees named and may reflect a restoration or scribal slip.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fort: North-East Corner). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]ικίας Ἐγλήκτῳ καὶ Α[…] καὶ Ἀφροδισίῳ καὶ Καρπιο[…] ἀμφοτέροις χαίρειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιῶ παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Πανί. κομίσασθε παρὰ […] ὀνηλάτου καυλίων δέσμας […] καὶ πράσων τέσσαρας καὶ διαμερίσατε αὐτὰ εἰς αὑτοὺς. ἀσπάσασθε τοὺς παρʼ ἡμῶν φίλους κατʼ ὄνομα. […] ἐρρωσθ […]
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