List of Names
List of Names
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89161
List of personal names TM 89161This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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Fragments of an ostracon listing personal names, with a running total of 20 names on one side. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at the Red Sea port of Berenike and dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
[fragment 1, front]
[… ? lines lost …]
Sarapion
Poseidonios
Ammonios
Ptolemaios
Paniskos
Kron[…]
[… ? lines lost …]
[fragment 2, back]
[… ? lines lost …]
Gaius idio[…]
Tryphon
names: 20
[fragment 2, back]
[…]
⟦Apollon[…]⟧
Meges
Lucius
Herakleides
Harpokras
[…]phoros
[fragment 1, back]
[column i]
[…]
[…]asais
methais (?)
[…]nais
Kerdon
[…]thais
[column ii]
Ar[…]
a[…]
The names mix Greek, Egyptian and Roman forms (Gaius, Lucius), typical of the population of Berenike. Several entries on the back of fragment 1 are too damaged to identify as names with certainty.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of Names). 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.2.135
[fragment 1front] [… ? lines lost …] Σαραπίων Ποσειδώνιος Ἀμμώνιος Πτολεμαῖος Πανίσκος Κρον[…] [… ? lines lost …] [fragment 2back] [… ? lines lost …] Γάιος ιδιο[…] Τρύφων ὀνόματα κ [fragment 2back] οἱ…[…]… Μεγης Λούκις Ἡρακλείδης Ἁρποκρᾶς […]…υφορος [fragment 1back] [column i] [……