Home › Browse › DDbDP-text › Object 88390
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon

o.claud.2.228 Mitte IIMons Claudianus

Letter from Dioscorus via HGV-meta

Letter from Dioskoros sending beets and chicory to Drakon, Eremesis and Ammonianos. A private letter from Dioskoros to Drakon, Eremesis and the curator Ammonianos, complaining that they never write back and sending three bundles of beets and one of chicory through a certain Eutych[…] to be shared among them. It comes from the Roman quarry settlement at Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, mid-2nd century AD. machine translation

Source of record: Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

The same text in other collections

Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 29651. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Διόσκορος Δράκωνι καὶ Ερεμεσις καὶ Ἀμμωνιανῷ κουράτορι ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς φιλτάτοις πολλὰ χαίρειν. καὶ τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιῶ παρὰ τῇ Τύχῃ τοῦ πραισιδίου καὶ τῶν ὀρέων ὅπου ἐπιξενοῦμαι. ποσάκις ἔγραψα ὑμῖν οὐδεὶς ὑμῶν γράψας μοι; κομίσατε παρὰ Εὐτυχ σευτλίων δέσμας γ καὶ ἄλλην δέσμην σερίδων. διαμερίσατε οἱ τρεῖς. γράψον μοι περὶ τῆς σωτηρίας ὑμῶν. μὴ ὀκνήσητε ὃ λαμβάνετε γράψον μοι ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ μάθω ὅτι ἔλαβον τὸ ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ. ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Dioskoros to Drakon and Eremesis and Ammonianos the curator, both (sic) dearest, many greetings. And I make obeisance for you ⟦for you (sing.)⟧ before the Fortune of the fort and of the mountains where I am staying as a stranger. How often have I written to you, and none of you has written to me? Receive from Eutych[…] 3 bundles of beets and another bundle of chicory. Divide them among the three of you. Write to me about your well-being. Do not hesitate; write to me what you receive, so that I too may know that they received what was entrusted to him. I pray for your health.

Connections

Found at Mons Claudianus

Cross-references (3)

Similar inscriptions · by content embedding

About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.
  • 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.
  • Inherited across the Trismegistos spine — a Trismegistos ID names one ancient text, and papyrology splits that text's description across databases: the edition in one, the date and provenance in another, the physical papyrus in a third. Fields tagged via … on this page were read from a sibling record under the same TM number, not asserted by Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text.