Letter?
Letter
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89253
Latin letter requesting something be sent quickly, mentioning wine and drachmas TM 89253This document was discovered at Abu Greiya (Vetus Hydreuma).A.D. 50 - 75
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A fragmentary Latin letter on an ostracon, addressed to someone whose name may begin Nabur-. The writer urges the recipient to send something quickly, asks to be written to, and mentions sums in drachmas and wine. It was found at Abu Greiya (Vetus Hydreuma) in the Eastern Desert and dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
[…] […]ri Nabur[…]
[…] greetings.
[…] … […]
[…] … drachmas 2[…]22 (?)
[…] you will send it quickly
[…] … man
[…] you will send quickly
[…] … if not
[…] write to me so that I may know […] … wine, drachmas […]
[…] … greet you
[…] …
The Latin shows colloquial spelling such as 'citto' for 'cito' (quickly). The drachma figure is only partly legible.
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.
o.berenike.2.227
o.berenike.3.478
[…] …ri Nabur[…] […] salutem […] soleri qu…cadan[…] […]vi… tum drachm cc…xxii […] mittes illo citto […]…eres homo […] citto mittes […]…eras si non […] scribe ad me ut sci- […][…]…o vino dr[…] […]… te saluta […]…tri