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Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from Norbanus and Herakleides to Taurinus, reporting receipt of two pieces of something brought by a camel-driver and asking that the camel-driver Kallimachos be sent off. It dates to around AD 140 and comes from Raima in the Eastern Desert of Egypt.
The word tematia means 'pieces' or 'slices', often of salted fish or meat in desert ostraca; what was sent is lost here. The letter switches from 'we' to 'I' after the greeting.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre de Norbanos et Hérakleidès à Taurinos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Νωρβανὸς καὶ Ἡρακλείδης ἀμφότεροι Ταυρίνῳ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν παντὸς εὐχόμεθά σε ἰσχύειν καὶ ὑγιαίνειν. γεινώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι ἐκομισάμην παρὰ […] καμηλίτου τεμάχια β καὶ […] καλῶς οὖν ποιήσῃς ἀπολύσας Καλλίμαχον καμηλίτην[…] ἡμῶν καὶ γιν…[…] …[…] [… ? lines lost …]
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