o.claud.4.867
[… ? lines lost …] […]… […]…ι […] πέμψαι ἀσκὸν γλυκέος ζύτους […] εἴ τι καινότερον, δήλωσόν μοι[…] πέμψε εἰς λατομίαν Ἀπόλλωνος τὸ ἐπιστόλιον
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 118519
End of a letter asking for a skin of sweet beer TM 118519Mons Claudianus
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End of a letter on an ostracon from Mons Claudianus, the Roman quarry settlement in the Eastern Desert. The writer asks for a skin of sweet beer to be sent, asks for any news, and gives instructions to send the letter on to the quarry of Apollon.
In English machine translation
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...] to send a skin of sweet beer
[...] if there is any news, let me know
[...] send the little letter to the quarry of Apollon.
The "quarry of Apollon" is one of the named quarries in the Mons Claudianus area. The sense of the second-to-last line rests on the editor's restoration "if there is any news".
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as End of a Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.