no image
DDbDP-text
Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · ostracon
o.claud.4.862 ca. 137 (?)Mons Claudianus
Letter from the Sklerourgoi to Saturnilus (Draft) via HGV-meta
Letter from the hard-stone workers to Saturnilus asking for leave. Draft letter on an ostracon from the hard-stone workers (sklerourgoi) at the Roman quarry of Mons Claudianus to their superior Saturnilus, around AD 137. They ask him to write on their behalf so that they may be granted leave, or to do whatever he thinks fit, mercifully. machine translation
The same text in other collections
Linked by Trismegistos ID
TM 118514.
Each record below describes this same artifact or text from a different angle.
- Letter from the Sklerourgoi to Saturnilus (Draft) HGV-meta Mons Claudianusca. 137 (?)
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
· Greek
· Greek
Transcription
τῷ κυρίῳ Σατορνίλῳ οἱ σκληρουργοί σε ἀσπάζονται κύριε
ἐρωτῶμέν σε τὸν ἡμέτερον κύριον
μελησάτω σοι γράψαι περὶ ἡμῶν
ὅπως κομεάτῳ ἔλθωμεν
ἢ ὡς ἂν θέλῃς ἵνα ταλτω[…]
μὴ ἀπολέσωμεν, ἀλλὰ εὐφρανθέντες, ἐὰν σὺ θέλῃς, …α[…]ελευσόμεθα ἢ ὃ ἐάν σοι
δοκεῖ, κύριε, ἐλεημόνως
ποίησον. ἔρρωσο, κύριε,
προκόπτων.Translations (1)
To the lord Saturnilus, the hard-stone workers greet you, lord.
We ask you, our lord, take care to write about us so that we may come on leave, or as you wish, so that we do not lose our [wages?] (?), but, being gladdened, if you wish, we shall […] come, or whatever seems good to you, lord, do it mercifully. Farewell, lord, and prosper.
Connections
Found at
Mons Claudianus
Cross-references (3)
- TM-Text 118514 primary
- DDbDP-Text o.claud;4;862 tier-1
- HGV-Text 118514 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 118514 (see that record)
- find site — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 118514 (see that record)
- find point — from HGV-meta, TM-Text 118514 (see that record)