Letter from Valerius Palmas about jars of meat sent by camel-driver TM 24152Mons Claudianusca. 110

Fragmentary private letter on an ostracon from Valerius Palmas, who reports sending five jars of meat and some cooking pots by a camel-driver and asks the recipient to write back confirming receipt. It comes from the Roman quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the Eastern Desert, around AD 110.

In English machine translation

The right side of the text is lost, so the restorations of 'jars' and 'you received' are editorial. The letter delta after 'cooking pots' may be the numeral 4.

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