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Draft of a letter from the work-overseers and quarrymen at the imperial quarry of Mons Claudianus in Egypt's Eastern Desert to their superior Probus. Crediting the god Sarapis and the good fortune of the quarry and of Probus, they announce good news concerning something on the 26th; the rest is lost.
The good news was probably the successful extraction or moving of a large stone block, but the text breaks off before saying so. "Sklerourgoi" are hard-stone workers, here rendered as quarrymen.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter to Probus from the Workers (Draft)). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πρόβῳ παρὰ ἐργοδοτῶν καὶ σκληρουργῶν ἐργαζομένων ἐν μετάλλῳ Κλαυδιανῷ τῷ κυρίῳ χαίρειν. τοῦ κυρίου Σεράπιδος θελήσαντος καὶ τῆς τύχης τοῦ Κλαυδιανοῦ καὶ τῆς σῆς τύχης συνεπισχυσάσης εὐανγελιζόμεθά σοι, κύριε, ἐπὶ τῆς κϛ [… ? lines lost …]
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