Letter to Antonius about a waterskin TM 89217This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75

Fragment of a letter on an ostracon addressed to a man named Antonius, mentioning the delivery of a waterskin. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea and dates to about AD 50-75.

In English machine translation

The Greek askos is a leather skin bag used for carrying liquids, here water, a vital commodity at the desert port of Berenike.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Antonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.