Fragment of a letter mentioning a cavalryman and camels TM 89218This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75

Fragment of a letter on an ostracon found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast, dating to about AD 50-75. The writer acknowledges receiving something, apparently connected with camels and a cavalryman, and mentions Valerius and Cornelinis (?), probably in greetings before the closing farewell.

In English machine translation

The beginning of the letter is lost. The name Cornelinis is an uncertain reading of the damaged text, and the person mentioned with Valerius may be someone greeted at the end of the letter.

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