Letter from Sokrates to Athenodoros and Ammonios about iron tools TM 118534Mons Claudianus

An ostracon letter from Sokrates to Athenodoros and Ammonios at the Roman quarry of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert. It concerns iron tools that Apollonios does not have and that neither the addressees nor Hieronymos had given him. The rest of the letter is too damaged to follow.

In English machine translation

The word translated "iron tools" (sidēria) refers to the iron implements used in quarrying, which were a frequent concern in the Mons Claudianus correspondence. The form ἀφιοκατε is garbled, perhaps for ἀφήκατε "you let go".

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Sokrates to Athenodoros and Ammonios). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.