Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata · papyrus

An Ostracon from the Quarry at Umm Balad

Source of record: Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek

Translations (1)

EN scholarly
Sokrates to his brother Hieronymos, greetings. By your health and by the Lord Ammon … neither in the quarry … nor in Arabarches many … you will write. I sent for two … Sokrates to take. Please then, send me the ten rings, for … has been brought to me in a letter from Rufus Faustinus along with the runners by the wagon, in order that the sledge can be fitted with runners with a view to bringing down the three-foot blocks and the plates. Before all else I desire that you are well. Greet Maximus and all the stonemasons. Farewell. Pachon 8.

Cross-references (5)

About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — HGV (Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis) — metadata.
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.