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A short private letter on an ostracon from Piso to his 'brothers' Zenon and Horion, saying he expects them on the Kalends and asking for a small sheet of papyrus and some warp-thread. It sends greetings to several men and to all the fellow soldiers, and was found at the Roman quarry site of Mons Claudianus in the mid-2nd century AD.
The Kalends, the first day of a Roman month, show the writer using the Roman calendar. 'Brothers' may mean comrades rather than siblings, and 'stemonin' is warp-thread used in weaving.
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 Piso to Zenon and Horion). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Πίσων Ζήνωνι καὶ Ὡρίωνι τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς πολλὰ χαίρειν. προσδέχομαι ὑμᾶς ἐν ταῖς καλάνδαις. ἵνα οὖν πέμψῃς μοι μίκκον χαρτάριον καὶ στημόνιν. μὴ ἀμελήσῃς πέμψον μοι διὰ τοῦ ἀναδίδοντός σοι τὴν ἐπιστολήν. Ὡρίωνι ταῦτα λέγω. ἀσπάζομαι Πανίσκον καὶ Διόσκορον καὶ Ψενοσῖριν καὶ πάντας το…
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