no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon
o.claud.2.362 IIRaima
Apolinaris, curator de Raima, à un centurion (?) via HGV-meta
Letter from Apollinaris, curator of Rhaima, about camels sent for water. An ostracon letter of the 2nd century AD from Apollinaris, curator of the military station at Rhaima in the Eastern Desert, to a superior. He reports that, because of a water shortage, he sent official camels to Akantha to fetch water, and also sent official and civilian camels to the recipient. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 29766.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Apolinaris, curator de Raima, à un centurion (?) HGV-meta RaimaII
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
[…]τῶι κυρίῳ Ἀπολλινάρις
κουράτωρ Ῥαειμα χαίρειν.
γιγνώσκειν σε θέλω ὅτι τῆς ἁμάξης
ἐλθούσης ἐπάνω μου καὶ κολάζεται[…] ὕδατος ἔπεμψα καμήλους κυριακοὺς εἰς Ἄκανθα
ἵνα ἀνενέγκωσι ἡμῖν
ὕδωρ καὶ μὴ κολαζώμεθα.
ἔπεμψά σοι καμήλους κυριακοὺς καὶ παγανικοὺς …
[…] διὸ ἔγραψά σοι ἵνα
εἰδῇς. ἔρρωσο.
[…]…[…]…[…]ομαι
[…]αν…[…]των σουTranslations (1)
[…] to his lord, Apollinaris, [curator of Rha]ima, greetings.
I want you [to know] that since the wagon [came] up to me and [we are] suffering for lack of (?) […] water, I sent the official (lord's) camels to Akantha [so that] they might bring [water] up to us and we might not suffer.
[I sent] you official and civilian camels […] therefore I wrote to you so that
[you may know.] Farewell.
[…] […]
[…] your […]
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 29766 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;2;362 tier-1
- HGV-Text 29766 tier-1
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.
- date — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 29766 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 29766 (see that record)