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A few words surviving from an older document, perhaps a contract, that was scraped off a papyrus later reused for two hexameter poems praising a duke of the Thebaid. It names several men, Dioskoros, Senouthes, Apollos and Kallinikos, from the village of Aphrodite in the Antaiopolite nome, 6th century AD.
This is the scraped-off underlying text of a palimpsest, part of the Dioskoros archive. The description suggests it was a contract, but too little survives to be sure.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Two poems). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Two poems in dactylic hexametres, written on palimpsest. They are encomia in honour of a dux of the Thebaid, perhaps Callinikos. An old contract (?) has been almost everywhere scratched out, to make a clean space. The letters which remain visible of the of the original text inter…
…… καὶ Διοσκόρου καὶ Σενούθου καὶ Ἀπολλῶτος καὶ Καλλινίκου ἀπὸ Ἀφροδίτης τῆς … κώμης …
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