Fragment of a letter about handing over a thirty-oared ship to Daidalos TM 2336Arsinoites (?)261 BCE – 229 BCE

A small fragment of a Ptolemaic letter, apparently asking the recipient to hand over a thirty-oared ship to a man named Daidalos. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and probably comes from the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).

In English machine translation

The request to hand over the ship and Daidalos' title of shipowner are editorial restorations; the verso note naming the thirty-oared ship and Daidalos supports the general sense. A triakontoros was a vessel with thirty oars.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Small Fragments: Letters Written across the Fibers). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.