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o.claud.2.280 Mitte IIMons Claudianus
Lettre d’Hèrakleidès et Dionysios à Paniskos et Herminos via HGV-meta
Letter from Herakleides and Dionysios to Paniskos and Herminos about water and supplies. A private letter from Herakleides and Dionysios to Paniskos and Herminos at the quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in Egypt's Eastern Desert, mid-2nd century AD. They complain that only a small jar of water arrived instead of the promised double jar, ask for a basket to be refilled and sent back, report that the vegetables have not yet grown, and urge the purchase of fish slices. machine translation
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- Lettre d’Hèrakleidès et Dionysios à Paniskos et Herminos HGV-meta Mons ClaudianusMitte II
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Transcription
Ἡρακλείδης καὶ Διονύσιος Πανίσκῳ καὶ Ἑρμίνῳ τοῖς ἀμφοτέροις πολλὰ χαίρειν. τὸ προσκύνημα ὑμῶν ποιοῦμεν
παρὰ τῇ Τύχῃ τοῦ πραισιδίου.
ἔγραψες ἡμεῖν τότε ὅτι ἔπεμψα διπλοκέραμον ὕδωρ.
οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν εἰ μὴ μικκὸν κέραμον. κόμισον τὸ σφυρίδιν ὃ ἔπεμψες ἡμῖν ὑπὸ
τῶν χεσμάτων ἵνα, ἐὰν
εὕρῃς εὐκαιρίαν, πάλιν πέμψον ἡμεῖν ἐξ αὐτοῦ. τὰ
νῦν οὔπω γέγονεν τὰ λάχανα. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς περὶ τῶν
τεμαχίων ἵνα ἀγοράσῃς.
ἐρρῶσθαι ὑμᾶς εὐχόμεθα,
προσφιλέστατοι.Translations (1)
Herakleides and Dionysios to Paniskos and Herminos, both of them, many greetings. We make your obeisance before the Tyche of the fort.
You wrote to us then, "I sent a double jar of water." He gave us nothing but a small jar. Collect the little basket which you sent us with the droppings (?), so that, if you find an opportunity, you may send us some of it again. As of now the vegetables have not yet come up. Do not neglect the matter of the slices (of salted fish), so that you buy them.
We pray for your health, dearest ones.
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- TM-Text 29697 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;2;280 tier-1
- HGV-Text 29697 tier-1
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