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o.claud.4.853 Mons Claudianus

Letter to Probus the Procurator from the Workers (Pagani) via HGV-meta

Letter of quarry workers to the procurator Probus announcing completion of a column. A letter from the stone-cutters, contractors and smiths working at the imperial quarry of Mons Claudianus to Probus, the emperor's procurator. They announce that they have finished the first column, explain that the quarry it came from lies far from the fort toward Porphyrites and that they named it Philoserapis, and then raise complaints about provisions, their children, and the baker and grain. machine translation

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Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

Πρόβῳ ἐπιτρόπῳ τοῦ κυρίου Καίσαρος παρὰ σκληρουργῶν καὶ ἐργοδοτῶν καὶ χαλκέων ἐργαζομένων ἐν μετάλλῳ Κλαυδιανοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ χαίρειν· εὐαγγελιζόμεθά σοι, κύριε, ἱλαρὰν φάσιν τοῦ Σεράπιδος θέλοντος καὶ τῆς Τύχης τοῦ Κλαυδιανοῦ καὶ τῆς Τύχης σοῦ συνεπισχυσάσης ἀπηρτικέναι τὸν πρῶτον κίονα ἄχρι τῆς κϛ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος Ἁθὺρ μηνὸς Αἰγυπτίοις κύβοις […]. γράφεις ἡμῖν, κύριε, δηλῶσαι σοι ἀπὸ λατομίας ποίας. τὸ ὄνομα τῆς λατομίας οὐκ ἐπιστάμεθα, ἐστὶν δὲ ἡ λατομία πολὺ ἀπὸ μάκροθεν τοῦ πραισιδίου εἰς τὰ μέρη τοῦ Πορφυρίτου νεύουσα, ᾗ ἐπεθήκαμεν ἡμεῖς Φιλοσέραπις. ἐπʼ ἀγαθῷ παραγενηθέντες εἰς τὴν λατομίαν καὶ […] […]ἀφήκαμεν κ[…] […]…ρα… ὀψώνια τοισ[…] […]αις ἡμῶν δοθῆναι […] θη τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν […] ναι κε…[…] τραφη[…] ἀνθρωπ[…]ἐργαζο[…] […]απο[…] […]ανερ[…] […]περὶ τῆς […] […]…ης μὴ ει[…]…ημονας […]ὀφείλεται […]αι μ […]…[…] [… ? lines lost …] ἔτι δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ ἀρτοκόπου […]μεναρ…[…] ἀλλὰ ὁ σῖτος […] ἡμῶν κακῶς […] [… ? lines lost …]

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EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
To Probus, procurator of our lord Caesar, from the stone-cutters, the contractors(?) and the smiths working in the quarry of Claudianus, to their lord, greetings. We bring you good news, lord, a joyful report: with Serapis willing and the Fortune of [Claudianus] and your Fortune lending aid, we have finished the first [column] by the 26th of the present [month of Hathyr], in Egyptian cubes […]. You write to us, lord, to tell you from which quarry. We do not know the name of the quarry, but the quarry lies very far from the fort, facing toward the region of Porphyrites, and we gave it the name Philoserapis. [For] good fortune, having come [to] the quarry and […] we let go […] provisions (opsonia) […] to be given to our […] our children […] be fed(?) […] people(?) working […] […] concerning the […] […] is owed […] […] Furthermore, concerning the baker […] but the grain […] our […] badly […] […]

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