Document of Uncertain Nature
Verso: draft of a document of uncertain, perhaps a letter; Recto: text of uncertain nature
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Small fragments of a Latin papyrus of the late 2nd century AD from Egypt. The recto preserves only word endings; the verso, perhaps a draft of a letter, mentions things that exceeded, an error made there, and people who failed or ran short.
Only the middles of lines survive, so the sense is unrecoverable; the scribe deleted the word 'reliqua' (the rest) on the verso, which suggests a draft.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Document of Uncertain Nature). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Verso: draft of a document of uncertain, perhaps a letter; Recto: text of uncertain nature
[r] […]…issem […]… […]… […]… […]…sdem [v] […]iisdem in eg[…] […]…rint tum…[…] […]…s superabant[…] […]r paren[…] […]…are una quoa[…] […] ibi errasse q[…] […]tent et defecerunt[…] […]…t…rere secu[…]
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