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o.claud.2.279 IIMons Claudianus
Lettre d’Hèrakleidès à Paniskos via HGV-meta
Letter from Herakleides to Paniskos about a knife with a lion's head. A private letter on an ostracon from Herakleides to Paniskos at the Roman quarry of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, asking him to collect a sheath and have a fine small knife with a lion's-head decoration fitted, its head to be all bronze. He promises to pay on arrival and adds greetings to friends, including two men from Pselkis, and remarks that there are no vegetables yet. machine translation
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TM 29696.
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- Lettre d’Hèrakleidès à Paniskos HGV-meta Mons ClaudianusII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
Ἡρακλείδης Πανίσκῳ τῷ φιλτάτωι πολλὰ χαίρειν. καλῶς
ποιήσῃς, ἄδελφε, κόμισον
παρὰ Νικηφόρου τὴν θήκην
καὶ οὕτως ὅρμασαι τὸ σὸν
ζμηλὶν μαχαίριν καλὸν
καὶ πρόσοψιν λέοντος ἔχοντα
ἵνα ἦν εὐζηλότερον γενέσθαι καὶ θαυμάζωμεν. τὴν
τιμὴν αὐτοῦ φέρω σοι ἐρχόμενος μετὰ τῆς προβολῆς.
ἀσπάζομαι τὸν φίλον σου Ἑρμῖνον
καὶ Κλαύδις Ἐπώνυχος. ἄσπαζε Ψενοσῖριν καὶ Ἄρειον
τοὺς Ψελκείτας. ἀσπάζεταί σε
Διονύσιος. οὔπω λάχανα
γέγονεν. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς
περὶ ζμηλιμαχαίριον
ἵνα τὸ κεφάλιν αὐτοῦ
ἦι ὁλοχάλκινον. ἐρρῶσθαί σε
εὔχομαι.
διευτύχει.Translations (1)
Herakleides to his dearest Paniskos, many greetings. Please, brother, collect the sheath from Nikephoros and then fit (?) your small knife (smelimachairion), a fine one with a lion's face, so that it may become more enviable and we may admire it. I will bring you its price when I come with the shift (?).
I greet your friend Herminos and Claudius Eponychos. Greet Psenosiris and Areios the Pselkites. Dionysios greets you. There are no vegetables yet. Do not neglect the small knife, so that its head may be all bronze.
I pray for your health.
Farewell.
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Mons Claudianus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 29696 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;2;279 tier-1
- HGV-Text 29696 tier-1
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