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A private letter on an ostracon from someone and Ulpius to their 'brothers' Alexas and Orsenouphis, with greetings, prayers before Isis, and news that each is to receive a bundle of cabbages from Hierax. It mentions someone not yet arriving at Kaine and a matter involving a centurion, but the end is lost. It dates to the mid-2nd century AD and comes from Raima in the Eastern Desert.
The proskynema, a formula of making obeisance on someone's behalf before a deity, is a standard greeting in letters of this period. Kaine is Kainepolis (Qena) in the Nile Valley.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lettre à Alexas et Orsenouphis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]καὶ Οὔλπις Ἀλεξᾶτει καὶ Ὀρσενούφι ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς πλειστα χαίρειν. πρὸ μὲν παντὸς εὔχομαι ὑμᾶς ὑγειαίνειν καὶ τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιοῦμεν παρὰ τῇ κυρίᾳ Ἴσιδει. κομίσασθε παρὰ Ἱέρακος ἕκαστος δέσμην καυλίων. περὶ τοῦ […]…του οὔπω ἥκι εἰς Καινήν […]… τὰ πεδία ἡμῶν. γινώ…
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