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o.claud.1.130 Mons Claudianus

Request to Successus for tools via HGV-meta

Letter to Successus about missing tools. Fragmentary letter to Successus from a worker at the Roman quarry of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, concerning tools. The writer says he has nothing, that two chisels are with a builder, that Nepheros took items away, and that two of three axes were lost during a visit of the prefect. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]Σουκκέσσῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. […]ἦλθον ὧδε […] […] ἐπισπουδαστὴς τῆς ὑδροφορίας…[…] […]… ἵνα τὰ σκεύη ………το…[…] ἀποφέρω οὐδὲ εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ἔργον αιτως[…] καὶ τὰ ὄντα ὧδε. ἄλλαι δύο ξοίδες παρὰ τῷ οἰκοδόμῳ εἰσίν. ἐγὼ οὐδὲν ἔχω οὐδὲ[…] παρὰ Νεφερῶτος ἐγὼ οὐδὲν ἔλαβον, ἀλλὰ […] αὐτὸς αὐτὰ ἦρκε. ἀξῖναι τρεῖς ἐνῆσαν ὧδε ἐξ ὧν δύο ἀπώλοντο τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος […]λει [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] to Successus [his brother, very many greetings]. […] I came here […] […] supervisor (?) of the water supply […] […] so that the tools […] I carry away, nor to my own work […] and the things that are here. Two other chisels are [with the] builder. I have nothing, nor […] I received nothing from Nepheros, but […] he himself took them away. Three axes were here, of which two were lost during the visit of the prefect […] […]

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