Home › Browse › DDbDP-text › Object 88510
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon

o.claud.2.288 Mitte IIMons Claudianus

Supplique au centurion (?) via HGV-meta

Request to a superior for a stoneworker to repair a broken mill. A fragmentary ostracon letter, probably addressed to a centurion, asking him to send a hard-stone worker to repair a mill that has broken down, so that the writers can grind grain and eat bread. It comes from the Roman quarry site of 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 29704. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] κ…[…] χαίρειν […] κατὰ τὸ ἦθός …α… […] πέμψον ἡμῖν σκληρουργὸν ποιῆσαι ἡμῖν τὸν μύλον, ἐπὶ ἠφανίσθη καὶ οὐ δυνάμεθα ἀλήθιν, ἵνα δυνηθῶμεν τῇ σῇ φιλανθρωπίᾳ ἄρτους φαγεῖν. ἔρρωσο, κύριε.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] […] greeting […] in accordance with your character […] send us a stonemason (?) to fix our mill for us, since it has been ruined and we cannot grind, so that thanks to your kindness we may be able to eat bread. Farewell, lord.

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.