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Letter from Psais to Aniketos about barley for Philammon the camel-rider TM 33333Kellis (Oasis Magna)IV

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A short business letter from Psais to his 'brother' Aniketos, asking him to send 3 1/2 artabas of barley, measured by the public measure, to Philammon the camel-rider at Kellis, without fail in the sixth indiction year. It dates to the 4th century AD and comes from Kellis in the Dakhla Oasis.

In English machine translation

To my lord brother Aniketos, […] Psais, greetings. Send to Kellis to the brother Philammon the camel-rider 3 1/2 artabas of barley by the public measure, total 3 1/2 artabas, but in any case in the 6th indiction. I pray for your health, my lord brother, for many years.

A dromedarios was a camel driver or camel-mounted courier. The phrase 'in any case in the 6th indiction' probably sets the delivery within that fiscal year.

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

DDbDP-text Full record →

p.kellis.1.79

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV · Kellis (Oasis Magna)

κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀνικήτῳ […] Ψάις χαίρειν. πέμψον εἰς Κέλλιν τῷ ἀδελφῷ Φιλάμμωνι τῷ δρομεδαρίῳ κριθῶν δημοσίῳ μέτρῳ ἀρτάβας τρεῖς ἥμισυ, γίνονται ἀρτάβαι γ 𐅵, ἀλλὰ πάντως ϛ ἰνδικτίωνος. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι, κύριέ μου ἄδελφε, πολλοῖς χρόνοις.