One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 78530

Fragment of a Latin document, possibly a draft letter TM 78530Unknown(End of the) IInd century A.D.

The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 4 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →

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.

In English machine translation

[recto] […] … I had […] […] … […] … […] … […] … the same [verso] […] the same in […] […] … then … […] […] … were exceeding (?) […] […] ⟦the rest⟧ … […] […] … together … […] […] to have erred there […] […] … and they failed […] […] … following (?) […]

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.

Document of Uncertain Nature

Papyri.info — APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) — papyri · P.Mich.inv. 4905 · (End of the) IInd century A.D. · Unknown

Verso: draft of a document of uncertain, perhaps a letter; Recto: text of uncertain nature

c.epist.lat.172

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · (End of the) IInd century A.D.

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