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o.claud.1.140 ca. 110Mons Claudianus
Fragment of a Letter from Valerius Palmas via HGV-meta
Letter from Valerius Palmas about jars of meat sent by camel-driver. Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from Valerius Palmas, who reports sending five jars of meat and some cooking pots by a camel-driver and asks the recipient to write back confirming receipt. It comes from the Roman quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, around AD 110. machine translation
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- Fragment of a Letter from Valerius Palmas HGV-meta Mons Claudianusca. 110
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Οὐαλέρις Παλμᾶς[…]
χαίρειν. ἔπεμψά σοι κεράμια
κρέως πέντε κ[…]καμηλίτης λεγω[…]
δραχμῶν […]
ἐὰν μὲν συ […]
καιαν παρα[…]
αὐτά, ἰδού σοι ου…[…]
γράψον μοι ἵνα γραφ…[…]
ἵνα αὐτὰ λάβῃ καὶ τὴν …[…]
σετηρι. ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰς τὸ κεράμιονἔπεμψά σοι αὐτὰ. δέξαι παρὰ …[…]τοῦ
καμηλίτου χύτρας δ […]
ἐφʼ ὡμαλίας …καιον …δεξάμενος
αὐτὰ γράψον αὐτῷ ἵνα[…]
γνοῖ ὅτι ἐκομίσω[…]Translations (1)
Valerius Palmas […] greetings. I have sent you five jars of meat […] the camel-driver […] of drachmas […]
If you […]
[…] them; see, for you […]
Write to me so that […]
so that he may receive them and the […]
[…] For I sent them to you in the jar. Receive from […] the camel-driver 4 (?) cooking pots […]
on condition (?) […] having received them, write to him so that […] he may know that you have received […]
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Mons Claudianus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 24152 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;1;140 tier-1
- HGV-Text 24152 tier-1
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