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o.claud.4.827 Mons Claudianus

Fragment of a Letter Concerning Charcoal via HGV-meta

Fragment of a letter concerning charcoal. Fragment of a letter on an ostracon from the quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in Egypt's Eastern Desert, dealing with a supply of charcoal. The writer says he is obliged to stay where he is, mentions a man named Germanus, and asks for something to be done for him involving a seal. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 118479. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[… ? lines lost …] […] οἶδας γὰρ […] […]… ἄνθρακος ἵνα […]ζειν ἐπεὶ ἐγὼ ἀνάγκην ἔχω […] ἐπιμεῖναι ε…[…] Γερμανοῦ το[…]σας τὰ ἀνθράκια […]ψαι μοι τὸ σφραγ[…] ἔρρωσο.

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[… lines lost …] […] for you know […] […] of charcoal so that […] since I am compelled […] to stay on […] of Germanus […] the charcoal […] to me the seal(?) […] Farewell.

Connections

Found at Mons Claudianus

Cross-references (3)

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