Letter of Recommendation
Remains of a letter of recommendation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89148
Letter recommending the writer's brother Longinus TM 89148This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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Fragmentary Latin letter on an ostracon from Berenike in which the writer asks the recipient to look after his brother Longinus, who is being recommended. It dates to around AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
[recto]
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I can (?) […]
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to return (?) […]
and I ask you to hold my brother Longinus recommended, and
you will say to Herma (?) […]
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[…] and I ask
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[…] July (?)
[verso]
[…] and […]
The writer uses the colloquial spellings possom for possum and commandatum for commendatum. The word iulias near the end may refer to the Kalends, Nones or Ides of July, but the context is lost.
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 Recommendation). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.berenike.2.123
[r] a…os […] …ditum …[…] r…as…b……[…] possom uia…[…] des…[…]…t…[…] tia[…]…[…] redda…[…] et rogo te ut fratrem meum Longinum commandatum habeas et dices herma netadd… an et cosm… …rret er […]… et rogo [… ? lines lost …] […]… iulias [v] […]… et …[…]…nou…[…]