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Letter from Sarmates to Dioskoros about oil, wine and baskets sent TM 33636Oxyrhynchos ?IV

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A private letter from Sarmates to Dioskoros listing food sent through various carriers: oil, baskets and wine to be drunk at a festival. He asks Dioskoros to come back with Theodoros and bring cakes. Probably from Oxyrhynchus, 4th century AD.

In English machine translation

[recto] Sarmates to his own Dioskoros. I have sent you through Ammon the priest a jar of oil, touch it (?), it is lying there, and through the brother Theodoros four little baskets, touch them (?), they are lying there, and a […] of oil, uncover it and eat, and a spathion of wine, drink it at the festival, and through Ilis one little basket, touch it (?), it is lying there. If Theodoros arrives there, come here with him and bring the cakes when you come, and the […], not the little sheet of papyrus. […] […] I pray for your health. [verso] Deliver to my mother and father. Sarmates.

The repeated phrase rendered 'touch it, it is lying there' is obscure and may mean something like 'collect it, it is waiting'. A spathion is a measure or jar of wine; the address on the back names his mother and father, though the letter opens to Dioskoros.

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 Sarmates). 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.oxy.10.1297

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · IV · Oxyrhynchos ?

[r] Σαρμάτης ἰδίῳ Διοσκόρῳ. ἀπέστειλά σοι διὰ Ἄμμωνος τοῦ ἱερέως μάριον ἐλαίου, ἅψαι αὐτὸ κεῖται, καὶ διὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Θεοδώρου σφυρίδια τέσσαρα , ἅψαι αὐτὰ κεῖται, καὶ προ…εινάριον ἐλαίου, ἀνακαλύψαι αὐτὸν καὶ φάγαι, καὶ σπαθίον οἴνου, πιεῖν αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν, καὶ διὰ Ἴλιτος σ…