o.claud.2.247
Πετενεφώτης Οὐαλερίῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ πολλὰ χαίρειν. εἰσερχομένου μου εἰς τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς ὁδοῦ ὁ κεντυρίων ἀνέσταλκέ μοι ἀπ…. διὸ μὴ ἀμελήσῃς πέμψαι μοι πέμψαι μοι … κόμισαι παρὰ … κιδιν πέμψω … ἐρωτῶ σε ἐξελθεῖν τῇ κδ.
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Letter from Petenephotes to Valerius about being sent back by a centurion TM 29667TiberianeMitte II
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A private letter on an ostracon from Petenephotes to Valerius, whom he calls brother, telling him that a centurion sent him back when he was halfway along the road and asking him to send something. He asks Valerius to come out on the 24th. It dates to the mid-2nd century AD and comes from the Roman quarry settlement of Mons Claudianus, from the Tiberiane site.
In English machine translation
Petenephotes to Valerius his brother, many greetings. As I was entering halfway along the road, the centurion sent me back […]. Therefore do not neglect to send me
to send me […]
Receive from […]
[…] I will send […]
I ask you to come out
on the 24th.
The verb rendered 'sent me back' may instead mean 'stopped me'. The repeated 'send me' and the scribe's correction of the day number (25th to 24th) suggest a hastily written note.
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 Petenephotes to Valerius). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.