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A private letter from Dioskoros to Drakon, Eremesis and Ammonianos, sending greetings, a bag of mustard and a jar, and telling them not to send salt; he mentions finding the denarius sent for small fish. Written on an ostracon at the Roman quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the mid-2nd century AD.
The mation is a small dry measure. The added lines at the end (aikonkei, eidonnatibon) appear to be Latin words written in Greek letters and are left untranslated, and the meaning of 'probole' (here rendered 'lid') 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 from Dioscorus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] Διόσκορος Δράκονι καὶ Ερεμησις καὶ Ἀμμωνιανῷ τοῖς ἀμφοτέροις φιλτάτοις πολλὰ χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιῶ παρὰ τοῖς ἐνθάδε θεοῖς. ἐὰν γένηται λάχανα πέμπω ὑμῖν. κομίσατε μαρσίππιον σινάπεως εἰς τοὺς τρεῖς. πέμπω σοι τὸ κεράμιον μετὰ τῆς προβολῆς. [v] οὐκ ἔστι χρεία, λοιπό…
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