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Fragmentary letter to Successus from a worker at the Roman quarry of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, concerning tools. The writer says he has nothing, that two chisels are with a builder, that Nepheros took items away, and that two of three axes were lost during a visit of the prefect.
The 'hegemon' is presumably the prefect of Egypt, whose visit to the quarry is mentioned. The 'epispoudastes' of the water supply seems to be an official charged with hastening water transport; the term has no exact English equivalent.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Request to Successus for tools). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[…]Σουκκέσσῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ πλεῖστα χαίρειν. […]ἦλθον ὧδε […] […] ἐπισπουδαστὴς τῆς ὑδροφορίας…[…] […]… ἵνα τὰ σκεύη ………το…[…] ἀποφέρω οὐδὲ εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ἔργον αιτως[…] καὶ τὰ ὄντα ὧδε. ἄλλαι δύο ξοίδες παρὰ τῷ οἰκοδόμῳ εἰσίν. ἐγὼ οὐδὲν ἔχω οὐδὲ[…] παρὰ Νεφερῶτος ἐγὼ οὐδὲν ἔλαβον, ἀλλὰ …
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