o.claud.1.131
Athenor Successo suo salutem zeucterias quattuor pernecessarias iube mitti ut possit columna inponi vale.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 24143
Letter from Athenor to Successus requesting equipment for placing a column TM 24143Mons Claudianusca. 107
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A short Latin letter on an ostracon from the Roman quarry at Mons Claudianus, in which Athenor asks Successus to send four urgently needed zeucteriae so that a column can be set in place. It dates to around AD 107.
In English machine translation
Athenor to his Successus, greetings.
Please have four zeucteriae sent, which are very much needed, so that the column can be put in place.
Farewell.
Zeucteriae (from Greek zeukterion, 'yoke' or 'fastening') were probably lifting or hauling gear such as yokes, harnesses or ropes used to move and set heavy stone. The text is in Latin, not Greek.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Latin Letter from Athenor to Successus). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.