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Pass order from the decurion Marcus Caninius to the curator of Raima TM 29767Mons ClaudianusII

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An ostracon from Mons Claudianus with a short official letter from the cavalry decurion Marcus Caninius to Apolinarios, curator of the station at Raima. It orders him to let Paniskos and Didymos son of Doras pass with a courier so that they can travel to Egypt (the Nile valley) to the centurion Licinius Proclus. It is dated Epeiph 1, in the 2nd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] Marcus Caninius, decurion, to Apolinarios, curator of Raima, greetings. Let Paniskos and Didymos son of Doras pass, together with the courier (tabellarius), so that they may go off to Egypt to Licinius Proclus the centurion. Epeiph 1

A curator was the soldier in charge of a desert road station. Here 'Egypt' means the Nile valley as opposed to the Eastern Desert.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Le décurion Marcus Caninius à Apolinaris, curator de Raima). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

o.claud.2.363

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · II · Mons Claudianus

[…] Μᾶρκος Κανίνιος δεκουρίων Ἀπολιναρίῳ κουράτορι Ῥαϊμα χαίρειν. Πανίσκον καὶ Δίδυμον Δωρᾶτος πάρες σὺν ταβελλαρίῳ ἵνα ἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀπέλθωσιν πρὸς Λικίνιον Πρόκλον τὸν κεντυρίωνα. Ἐπὶφ α