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A short business letter on an ostracon from the Roman quarry at Mons Claudianus, in which Palais reports to Athenodoros on the progress of stone blocks being worked in the quarry, giving their sizes in feet. He asks him to see to it that a stone is brought down to the loading platform. It is dated to the 27th of Thoth.
Phalangia are wooden rollers or poles used to move heavy stone; krepis here probably refers to a loading ramp or platform. The year of the letter is not given.
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 Palais to Athenodoros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Παλαις Ἀθηνοδώρῳ τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ χαίρειν. γείνωσκε ὅτι […] ἤδη γ λίθους ἄνω ἐν τῇ λατομίᾳ ἕτερον συλλέγοντα πόδας ιβ ἕτερον […] τὸν δὲ ἕτερον πόδας ϛ με[…]μεθα ἕτερον μ[…]… δε ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ …[…]…η τὰ φαλάγγια καὶ εἰς τὴν κρηπῖδα καταβαλεῖν μελήσει σοι Θὼθ ἔρρωσο κζ
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