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o.claud.4.803 Mons Claudianus

Letter from Heron to Apollonios via HGV-meta

Letter from Heron to Apollonios asking for a tablet and asteria. A short private letter on an ostracon from the quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in Egypt's Eastern Desert, in which Heron asks his friend Apollonios to send him a pinakion and some asteria by one of the water-carriers, because he needs them. The end of the letter is lost. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 118455. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Ἥρων Ἀπολλωνίῳ τῶι φιλτάτωι χαίρειν. εὖ ποιήσεις διά τινος τῶν ἀκοαρίων πέμψας μοι τὸ πινάκιον καὶ τὰ ἀστέρια ὅτι χρεία μοι αὐτῶν […] …[…]…[…] [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
Heron to his dearest Apollonios, greetings. Please be so kind as to send me, through one of the aquarii (water-carriers), the tablet (?) and the little stars (?), because I have need of them […] […] [… ? lines lost …]

Connections

Found at Mons Claudianus

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