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Letter from Diogenes to Dioskoras about garments TM 29008OxyrhynchitesII

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A private letter from Diogenes to Dioskoras asking him to collect a cloak and another garment from Isidoros and take them to Kalyke, and to send a dalmatic, a ladle and other items. He asks for news and sends greetings to Euplia.

In English machine translation

[recto] Diogenes to Dioskoras, most honoured, greetings. Before all else I pray that you are in good health, and I make obeisance for you before the lord Sarapis. Go to Isidoros about the cloak (phainolēs) and the striped (?) garment (epikarsion), and take them to Kalyke; and send us whatever (…) you have received from the Pharitai (?). The dalmatic, send it too, and the ladle (kyathos). Write to me about how things are and what has happened. Greet Euplia. I pray for your health. [verso] Deliver to Dioskoras.

The phrase about what was received 'from the Pharitai' is syntactically garbled in the original, so the object is unclear. The epikarsion was a garment worn crosswise; its exact form is uncertain.

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

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p.oxy.12.1583

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Oxyrhynchites

[r] Διογένης Διοσκορᾶτι τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν πάντων εὔχομαί σε ὑγιαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ Σαράπιδι. γενοῦ παρὰ Ἰσίδωρον χάριν τοῦ φαινόλου καὶ τοῦ ἐπικαρσίου καὶ ἀπένεγκον παρὰ Καλύκην, καὶ πέμψατε ἡμῖν ἃς ἐὰν ᾖς εἰληφὼς παρὰ Φαριτῶν τὴν δαλματικὴ…