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θ I Νῖλος IIII Ἀπολινάρις III Διόσκορος II Ἡρακλίδης IIII Σαραπίων Ἀπολ II Σαραπίων Περυ III Ψενταῆσις I Ἑρμίας φρυγονατοι ι Ἡρακλίδης σίγνεν Οὐέστα
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 29726
List of night watchmen with watchword TM 29726Mons ClaudianusMitte II
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An ostracon from the Roman quarry station of Mons Claudianus listing soldiers or workers on night-watch duty, each name preceded by a stroke numeral, perhaps a watch or shift number. It ends with a separate entry for the fire-tenders and the watchword for the night, "Vesta". It dates to the middle of the 2nd century AD.
In English machine translation
9
I Nilos
IIII Apolinaris
III Dioskoros
II Herakleides
IIII Sarapion son of Apol(…)
II Sarapion son of Peru(…)
III Psentaesis
I Hermias
Fire-tenders (?)
10 Herakleides
Signal: Vesta
The Roman numerals beside the names probably mark the watch of the night each man kept. The garbled "phrygonatoi" seems to stand for men tending fires or beacons, and "signen" renders Latin signum, the watchword, here the goddess Vesta.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Lists of Vigiles). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.