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o.claud.1.168 Mons Claudianus

Fragment of a Letter via HGV-meta

Letter to a brother reproaching him for not writing. End of a private letter on an ostracon from the Roman quarry site of Mons Claudianus in Egypt's Eastern Desert. The writer complains that his 'brother' has not written, asks for news of his health, and says that having heard he was coming down, he sat by the road every day waiting for him. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […]…[…] με Κελερᾶν […] θρώτερος ησα…[…] ὅτι μοι οὐκ ἔγραψας[…] κας. ἐρωτῶ, ἄδελφε, γράψον μοι περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας σου[…] ἤκουον ὅτι καταβαίνεις …[…] καθʼ ἡμέραν εἰς τὴν ὁδὸν ἐκαθήμην προσδοκῶν σε ὡς ἔλθῃς. ἔρρωσο.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] […] … […] me Keleras […] …-er (?) … […] that you did not write to me […] […]. I ask you, brother, write to me about your well-being […] I heard that you were coming down … […] every day on the road I sat expecting you to come. Farewell.

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Found at Mons Claudianus

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