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o.claud.4.860 Mons Claudianus

Letter to a Procurator via HGV-meta

Letter of contractors announcing good news to an imperial procurator. Fragmentary ostracon letter from Mons Claudianus, sent by one or more contractors at the quarry to an imperial procurator, announcing good news. It mentions the god Sarapis, dates in the current month and charcoal, probably connected with quarry work. machine translation

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Linked by Trismegistos ID TM 118512. Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 · Greek · Greek

Transcription

[…]… Αμ Πρόβῳ […] ἐπιτρόπῳ τοῦ κυρίου Καίσαρος παρὰ […]ας ἐργοδοτῶν Κλαυδιανοῦ, τῷ κυρίῳ χα εὐαγγελιζόμεθά σοι, κύριε, τὴν ἱλαρὰν φάσιν ὅτι … εἴκοσι […]προτέρου …τιοις κυρ… […]ειδ… τῇ τέσσαρα καὶ […] τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνὸς […] ὁ κύριος Σαράπις […]ἡμῖν περὶ τοῦ […]εικος ἀπόδος […]…σε δηλῶμεν […] ἀπὸ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ […] ὑμᾶς ἄνθρακα […]… ἐπιβάλεσθαι […]…ενου […]… [… ? lines lost …]

Translations (1)

EN AI · machine translation from the DDbDP edition (Claude Opus 5.5)
[…] … Am[…] To Probus(?) […], procurator of our lord Caesar, from […]as, contractor(s) of Claudianus, to our lord, greetings. We bring you good news, lord, the joyful report that … twenty […] of the former … […] on the fourteenth (?) […] of the present month […] the lord Sarapis […] to us concerning the […] give back […] we inform […] from the fifteenth […] you charcoal […] to set to work (?) […] […] […] [… lines lost …]

Connections

Found at Mons Claudianus

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