o.claud.2.305
[… ? lines lost …] […] Ori … […] Iuli- Ser quart- Cor Ammon- VI Kalendas scopel- prim- Iuli- Anub- secund- Iera- Sarap- terti- Turi- Fab- […] quart-…r[…] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24003
Fragment of a watch roster for the watchtowers TM 24003Mons Claudianusca. 150
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Fragment of a Latin roster from the quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, about AD 150. It assigns soldiers by abbreviated names to the first through fourth watches at the watchtowers (scopeli) for a day dated 6 days before the Kalends of a lost month.
In English machine translation
[…]
[…] Ori[…]
…
[…] Julius(?) Ser[…]
Fourth (watch): Cor[…] Ammon[…]
6th day before the Kalends: watchtower(s) (?)
First (watch): Julius Anub[…]
Second (watch): Iera[…] Sarap[…]
Third (watch): Turi[…] Fab[…] […]
Fourth (watch): …r[…]
[…]
The abbreviations p(rima), s(ecunda), t(ertia), q(uarta) are understood as the four night watches (vigiliae), and the restoration s[copel-] (watchtowers) is the editor's. Names are heavily abbreviated, so their full forms are uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.